The Winter Thief (Kamil Pasha Novels)

The Winter Thief is Jenny White's gripping third thriller to feature Turkish detective Kamil Pasha and explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, reflecting the mad idealism of those turbulent times.

January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. When the police discover a shipload of guns and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up, suspicion falls on a socialist commune Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called in to investigate. He soon encounters his most ruthless adversary to Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that the commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed -- along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened.