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Mehmet Murat Somer: The kiss murder (2009, Serpent's Tail)

245 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2009 by Serpent's Tail.

ISBN:
978-1-84668-693-1
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OCLC Number:
271774372

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1 star (1 review)

"Being Istanbul's foremost transvestite detective, nightclub owner and computer expert is pretty time-consuming. So when our girl receives a visit from her hysterical friend Buse asking for help, she is initially reluctant to commit. Buse has, for several years, kept in flagrante photos and letters from a former relationship with a powerful man. So when her apartment is ransacked and Buse is later found dead, our girl needs to polish her Thai kick-boxing skills, slip into her slinkiest Audrey Hepburn number and use her formidable powers of charm and flirtation to trace the killer."--Back cover.

2 editions

reviewed The kiss murder by Mehmet Murat Somer (A Penguin mystery)

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1 star

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.

Subjects

  • Cross-dressers
  • Fiction
  • Burglary investigation
  • Social life and customs
  • Manners and customs

Places

  • Turkey
  • Istanbul
  • Istanbul (Turkey)