For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport,...

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young...

Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon. But on their first night in the city, a harem girl is found murdered – strangled in...

Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals,...

Kemal spends much of his life in love with Fusun, who is a beautiful shop girl and also distant relative. In an attempt to record and preserve their relationship with her, he starts to collect and hoard objects which...

(The Ottoman Quartet, 3) The third book in the Ottoman Quartet, set in the years leading up to WWI, is steeped in the tumultuous events and the political struggle that shaped 20th century Turkey, from the war against the...

Set in two time periods – the current day story of historical researcher, Elizabeth Staveley who finds a fragment of a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, suggesting that Celia, an English girl, may have been ship-wrecked at the end...

This is the story about two cultures and the role of women, the conflict and hardships.

A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the First World War. Focusing on the experiences of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events, Ayşe Kulin mixes...

Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2 (also The Ottoman Cage) Inspector Çetin Ikmen and forensic pathologist Arto Sarkissian have been friends since childhood, and their work together in Istanbul’s criminal justice system has only served to cement their friendship. When they’re...