Short novel set in MANHATTAN
The Prophet Murders
Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
Genre(s): Crime
Era(s): Modern
The book is set in Istanbul, where the glories of the Ottoman Empire have long vanished. One of the quirkier attractions of the modern city are the transvestite clubs, which offer a wide variety of diversions (some of them very physical). When a series of corpses begins to appear (some recently killed, others murdered years before), the world of the clubs is very disturbed — particularly as the methods of dispatch are often extremely unpleasant. The narrator of the novel, the club-owner Burcak, is a transvestite, routinely described as ‘she’ by those who know her (even though Burcak is male, with no surgical alterations): Burcak has been dealing with personal threats based on her irreligious behaviour, but now it’s beginning to look imperative that she track down a particularly nasty killer.
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