This mystery by Jenny White is her first novel after a number of non-fiction books on Turkish society and history. She supposedly has a professorship in Anthropology at BU. The book was saturated with intimate details of Turkish dress, customs, and historical detail that made it a true pleasure to read. The reticence of some of the dialogue and description was refreshing after some of the more blowsy prose I have been reading.
The main protagonists is Kamil Pasha who must solve the murder of a European woman, but then gets entangled in an earlier murder of another governess and late nineteenth-century Turkish politics.
I like this book well enough that I will watch for the next in the series of Kamil Pasha novels.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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