Libi Astaire is the author of the award-winning Jewish Regency Mystery Series, which has introduced lovers of mystery novels to what is often a forgotten community: the Ashkenazic Jews who settled in England during the 1700s and early 1800s. She is also the author of "Terra Incognita," a novel about the crypto-Jews of Spain; "The Banished Heart," a novel about Shakespeare, secret Jews, and 1930s Berlin; and "The Latke in the Library & Other Mystery Stories for Chanukah," a Chanukah-themed spoof of Agatha Christie mystery novels. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
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