Praise for Esmahan Aykol:
Kati could be the love child of Miss Marple and NPR's Andrei Codrescu.
It doesn't matter who done it. What matters is that Aykol uses the genre
to tell us more about the world than we're used to.--Newsday
An offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Fans of
Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher will
find a lot to like.--Publishers Weekly
Kati owns Istanbul's only mystery book store and, as usual, gets
involved in a case that is none of her business. Every day, a beautiful
woman lunches alone in the restaurant next to the bookstore. When the
woman is found dead in her apartment, Kati immediately recognizes the
stranger from the restaurant in images in the newspaper photos. Although
the police believe it was an accident, Kati suspects something more
sinister has happened.
Sani Ankaraligil was an attractive young woman and a politically active
ecologist in the middle of a divorce from her wealthy husband. So who
would benefit from her death? The industrial companies Sani had accused
of polluting the rivers of western Turkey, or her jealous husband
seeking revenge through an honor killing, or a Thracian separatist
group? The investigation pulls Kati into murkier waters: the marriage
may have been a sham, designed to cover up Sani's husband's
homosexuality . . . the role of her mother-in-law goes from distasteful
to outright criminal.
