Mike Omer

Mike Omer was born in 1979 in Jerusalem

Michael Omer was born in Jerusalem in 1979. Both of his parents are psychologists, and his brother is the artist Noam Omer. At age 6 his family spent a year in Boston for his father's post-doctorate, and there he learned English.

At 16 he wrote his first novel, The Geography of the End of the World, published by Opus in 1995. His second novel, The Duck Attack, came out in 1999 and was nominated for the Gefen Award. He also worked as a journalist, a game developer and the CEO of the company Loadingames.

In 2011 he co-created the role-playing game Misfortune with Shahar Kober and Ziv Botzer. He then wrote the interactive young adult book Sleepless, which appeared in English in 2015 and had sequels.

After 6 fantasy books, he turned to crime fiction under the pen name Mike Omer, starting with Spider's Web in 2016. He later left his job to write full time. His Zoe Bentley and Abby Mullen series were published by Thomas & Mercer.

His book A Killer's Mind won the Russian Detective Prize in 2020. In 2024 a TV series based on it was released on the Kinopoisk streaming service.