The Winter Thief, Jenny White
The Winter Thief, Jenny White
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The Winter Thief
A Kamil Pasha Novel

Author: Jenny White

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 11 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2010

Synopsis

January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbuls 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 Artis friends organized in the eastern mountains. Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha is called in to investigate. He soon encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: 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 destroyedalong 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.Exploring the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, The Winter Thief also reflects the mad idealism of those turbulent times.

About Jenny White

Jenny White is the author of the Kamil Pasha novels, The Sultan’s Seal, The Abyssinian Proof, and The Winter Thief. She is a professor of anthropology and the author of numerous nonfiction works on Turkish society and politics. She lives in Boston.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 13, 2012

Reading Jenny White's historical mysteries is somewhat akin to meeting a group of new acquaintances at a party or business meeting: you might leave with an overall favorable impression and then (when you start thinking) you start nit-picking. . . . There is alot to like in this book and the other Kam......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on March 25, 2011

"The Winter Thief" is a historical mystery set in 1888 in Istanbul and in some rural villages along the border with Russia. This book was the third in the series and may spoil events in the previous novels, however, you don't need to read them to understand this one. It wasn't until I was about to w......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 23, 2020

The Winter Thief by Jenny White is the third and so-far, the last book in her historical mystery series featuring Turkish Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha. I do hope that at some point, she decides to continue the series but this third book was published in 2010 so it's not looking good. This book is a......more

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