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Graveyard Eyes
by David Chacko
ISBN-10: 0-9748921-7-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9748921-7-7
About this Book
When you’re a detective at the scene of a murder, and the killer buzzes you for some chat, you know you’re in for a long hard chase.
Inspector Levent, the man the Istanbul police department sends when discretion is required, has to use all his skill to make his way through a maze of sex, lies, and hot money. He also knows that every turn in this case of high society murder will bring him up against the realities of power.
When he finally reaches the pinnacle, the discoveries he makes provide a full top-down view of the country of Turkey on the verge of entry into the EU.
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About the Author
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I live in Istanbul most of the year. It's a cosmopolitan place that stands on the verge of the turmoil called the Middle East. It's not hard to feel the tremors that occur from time to time, like aftershocks of earthquakes. I try to pass on the reports by keeping an ear to the ground.
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David is the author of fifteen novels. His books have been called "brilliant and scaring" (Kirkus), and "raw-boned and brutal" (The Detroit News). He is known as "a novelist of talent and power" (Playboy), "a writer of power and intensity" (Publisher's Weekly), and his work as "compelling and unexpected" (Newsweek), "a powerhouse charged with artistic and imaginative feats." (Buffalo Courier-Express)
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A Review
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Foremost Press Releases Mystery Thriller
Graveyard Eyes, David Chacko's twelfth novel, draws aside the curtain for an intimate look at a society that is as old as any on earth, and as sophisticated, yet veiled even to its citizens. Istanbul, incredibly ancient and intensely modern, is the subject tantalizingly revealed. The murder of one of its most successful and liberated businesswomen is a scandal in its own right, but one that steadily grows as Inspector Levent turns his trained eye on the things he knows best and the people that no one really knows well.
A wealthy successful feminist sliced and diced? A killer who talks to the police online? An Inspector of Homicide who is a gourmet and budding media personality? Incest, bigotry, and the contradictions of a world that straddles two continents and even more cultures? Graveyard Eyes has these things, plus a concentration on character and place that is the strength of Chacko’s novels. Meet Inspector Onur Levent as he follows a trail of blood and money up the social ladder to its international ending on an island in the Sea of Marmara.
It’s one thing to write about the rich and famous, and another to understand them. Chacko, who lives in Istanbul, is one of the few people who can take the reader into a world that in its own way is as private as the harems of the Ottoman sultans. From the call girls of the super rich to corrupt government officials force-fed hot money, the portrait that emerges in Graveyard Eyes is of an enormous center of trade and duplicity that stands at the exact crossroads of Europe and Asia.
Graveyard Eyes was published by Foremost Press. It can be ordered through local bookstores and at ForemostPress.com, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com.
ISBN 0-9748921-7-3, 272 pp, $14.97
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