Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul`s only crime bookshop. She has learned the corrupt ways of her adored city & soon takes possession of an apartment obtained with the help of a generous bribe to a government official. All is well until a man is found murdered in her dream apartment & Kati becomes the police`s primary suspect. In her second novel Esmahan Aykol takes us to the alleys & boulevards of cosmopolitan Istanbul, to posh villas & seedy basement flats, to the property agents & lawyers, to Islamist leaders & city officials
- in fact everywhere that baksheesh helps move things along.