The first story in The Deadliest Deceptions, a collection of Miriam bat Isaac stories to be published this fall, is “Believing is...

In The Deadliest Lie, we see that although Miriam is betrothed to Noah, she falls in love with Judah, a jeweler with a shop in...

Initially, the Gorgons were described as three powerful winged demons, with swine-like tusks, talons for feet, an iconic head of hair...

Fire steels like this were used throughout the Roman and Medieval Periods to set fires when struck against a piece of hard rock such as...

Gardens in the ancient world had special meaning, function, and design. Sometimes it was a place to rest and relax, other times a place...

In “Believing is Seeing,” a short story that’s a locked-room murder mystery, Miriam is so baffled that she wonders whether the victim’s...

Miriam lives in a limestone townhouse, but in The Deadliest Lie, along her walk through the Jewish quarter and then through the other...

For the image posted here, the depression center left was filled with water and used for swimming practice and mock naval battles. To the...

Aristotle contrasted the genres of comedy and tragedy. He said comedy represents men as worse than they are in real life, whereas tragedy...

In “The Mistress,” a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, a collection of Miriam bat Isaac short stories to be published later this year,...