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The Sultan's Seal

By: Jenny White

Fiction Mystery and Thrillers
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This impressive first novel rests securely on the author's background as a professor of anthropology and writer of several nonfiction books on Turkish society and politics. That said, she turns to fictional writing about Turkish history with full awareness of the historical novel's need for authentic detail, tone, and characterizations but, at the same time, its requirement, to be successful, that it avoid a lecturing manner or the slotting in of large chunks of undigested information gleaned fr...om research. The premise here is sort of CSI goes Ottoman Empire, in the late nineteenth century, that is, when the sultan reigned supreme and everyone was spied upon. The body of the English governess of the former sultan's granddaughter is found floating in the Bosporus, obviously the victim of murder. Seeking an answer to the crime leads Kamil Pasha, the local magistrate, to explore parallels between this event and a previous murder: that of an Englishwoman under similar circumstances. Court life and customs in old Istanbul are thrillingly captured here, with readers easily transported back to those days when mystery and intrigue lurked around every corner. Brad Hooper

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