Divorce Turkish Style
Mysteries and crime stories, Travel and geography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
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 WeeklyKati 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