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The Cypriot Agent

The Cypriot Agent
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Famagusta, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople), Novorossiysk
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1974

A Cold War novel of foreign intrigue. An intricate thriller of espionage and foreign intrigue, the novel turns on a Cypriot hit man hired by the CIA.

The Darkest Night

The Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector Ikmen, Book 26 Dark magic is unleashed on the streets of Istanbul . . . When a newborn baby is found drowned in the shallow waters of the Golden Horn, all-out warfare threatens to erupt between rival criminal...

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
  • Author(s): Stephen Sturgess
  • Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...

The Masquerade of Istanbul

The Masquerade of Istanbul
  • Author(s): Mehmet Agop
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

‘Quietness is a mysterious trait.’ This is the story of Fehmi who grew up in a liberal family in Istanbul but became religious later in life. In the summer of 1998, the time when political Islam is on the...

The Oracle of Stamboul

The Oracle of Stamboul
  • Author(s): David Lukas
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1877

Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive...

The Prince of Light

The Prince of Light
  • Author(s): Ünver Alibey
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Esin arrives in Istanbul to pursue her university education, only to find herself inexplicably drawn to a mysterious and charismatic stranger. Emir, returning to Istanbul after years away, is on a quest for an artifact that could alter the...

The Red-Haired Woman

The Red-Haired Woman
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a...

The Rug Bazaar

The Rug Bazaar
  • Author(s): Marylee MacDonald
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): contemporary

Two American women. Two Turkish men. In exotic Istanbul everyone’s on the make. “A duet of stories that flies in the face of anything you’d think a love story could be. These are independent stories, yet, as a pair,...

The Secret of the Night Train

The Secret of the Night Train
  • Author(s): Sylvia Bishop
  • Location(s): Austria, Europe, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): Present

One small girl – one BIG adventure. When Max is sent to Istanbul to stay with her boring Great Aunt-Elodie, little does she expect to be plunged into a thrilling night-time adventure across Europe. And when the mysterious Heartbreak...

The Time Regulation Institute

The Time Regulation Institute
  • Author(s): Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Old Istanbul aristocrats, Turkish teashops, imperial diamonds, and great and humble mosques are juxtaposed with the almost non-descriptive portrayals of neighborhood friendships, family relations, and local public figures who could be found in any city in Turkey or, perhaps,...

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