Mitchell Chefitz: 3 books

Blood Covenant is a mystical thriller, pitting an unlikely team of four against a conspiracy so dark you will be astonished as it comes to light. A Congressman’s young granddaughter has been ritually murdered, bled out, a Hebrew letter carved into her forehead. Gideon Schwartz, a family friend and...

Allison, blocked from realizing her stories, visits her mentor Reuben, who takes her to his synagogue, opens a Torah scroll, and begins to read not from the Hebrew letters, but from the white space. "The Torah is written in letters of black fire on a background of white fire," he says. Within...

"The Curse of Blessings" is ten jewel-like tales nestled in a larger framework, wherein an aged storyteller passes on his craft to four unlikely apprentices. It is a gift that will leave them transformed - or not - depending on what they allow themselves to hear. These are tales of utter simplicity...