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Legionary: Viper of the North (Legionary 2)

Legionary: Viper of the North (Legionary 2)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty
  • Location(s): Greece, Istanbul (Constantinople), Romania, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome The Danubian frontier is weaker than ever, and a storm is gathering in the north . . . Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the...

Letter From a Stranger

Letter From a Stranger
  • Author(s): Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey), Connecticut, Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2004; 1938-1945

Captivating and evocative, Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful...

Longing for Istanbul: The Words I Haven’t Said Yet

Longing for Istanbul: The Words I Haven’t Said Yet
  • Author(s): Lisa Morrow
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

From the moment Lisa Morrow first stepped onto Turkish soil in 1990, her love affair with the country has been tumultuous. She came to stay forever and then left for good many times, but could never get Turkey and...

Master of Shadows

Master of Shadows
  • Author(s): Neil Oliver
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century

In fifteenth-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl. But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of the world. His unique abilities carry him from his...

Midnight at the Pera Palace

Midnight at the Pera Palace
  • Author(s): Charles King
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.   Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and...

Murder in Constantinople

Murder in Constantinople
  • Author(s): A E Goldin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Whitechapel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1854

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople – a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London’s East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War...

On the Bone

On the Bone
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporayy

The brand-new Istanbul crime thriller staring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, ‘the Morse of Istanbul’ (Daily Telegraph), from Barbara Nadel. ON THE BONE is perfect for fans of Donna Leon. In Istanbul – the golden city on the Bosphorus – ancient...

Petrified

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

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 6) Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy… An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a...

Pretty Dead Things

Pretty Dead Things
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10) When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen’s investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger,...

Red Dress in Black & White

Red Dress in Black & White
  • Author(s): Elliot Ackerman
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey–to...

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