Mehmet Murat Somer

Without naming names, Buse tells the owner of the transvestite night club where she hangs out that she still has letters and photos from a youthful liaison with an important public figure who very much wants the evidence to disappear. The next day, Buse is murdered but the police are uninterested, so the only way to find the murderer is to find the letters and photos.

A fascinating narrator and some very funny scenes in this thriller set in an interesting milieu. Unfortunately the font in this ebook was unable to cope with Turkish diacritics, which was distracting at times.… (més)

Abandoned about half way through.

The cover is fantastic.

This was a slog and I sometimes had to wonder if I was really reading a mystery novel. Once I got halfway through, saw that it was supposed to be hilarious. I hadn't seen anything that looked like a joke....

And it didn't really feel like she was investigating anything really. There didn't seem to be all that much stakes and I couldn't work out why someone who was being paid to be a white hat hacker wasn't using those skills to investigate this stuff.

Cover's fantastic though.… (més)

An IT security consultant and nightclub owner believes that there is a serial killer behind the apparently random and accidental deaths of Turkish transvestites. As not even his boyhood friend who is now very high up in the police believes him, he decides to investigate the deaths himself.

The un-named narrator and other characters were fun to spend time with and many of them have potential as recurring characters in the series. However, although this was the first published it was actually the second written in the series, so I don't know if they do recur.

It became fairly obvious quite early on who the murderer was, so the emphasis was more on the investigation, which proceeded for a long time based on nothing much more than the narrator's hunch.

I definitely felt the lack of a pronunciation guide for the Turkish names and there were far too many misprints.

I did get the first written/second published in the series to read another time, but not just yet.… (més)