Christine Andain
Osman
Zahir, a Turkish Cypriot Inspector based in Girne, takes on his first murder
case. When two bodies are unearthed by a
digger for a housing development company, and one of the men whom Osman
questions is found murdered in his home the following morning, a number of
suspects begin to emerge including the dead man’s middle-aged daughter and
Gorus, a local businessman and reputed paedophile. Osman’s investigations are complicated
further when Zelfa Urfa, an attractive and ambitious Turkish female inspector
from Istanbul, is seconded to investigate the case.
Christine Andain lives in Liverpool, England. She has been a teacher for over 30 years and
written sections for various text books on the education industry. Christine completed an MA in Writing at John
Moore’s University, and she is currently working on her second novel in the
Inspector Zahir series called Rivers of Concrete which deals with human
smuggling through Northern Cyprus to the South and so into the EU.
"There was a clear sign of footprints
making their way in and out of the room. But around the body the dust had been
disturbed to such an extent, that it was difficult to work out where one foot
print started and another finished. Was this because the falling man had
destroyed the demarcation lines or because there had been some kind of fight?
He stared at the dead body and thought again about the strange placement of
limbs. A small pool of blood had collected on the floor tiles by the head, and
the eyes seemed to be staring at him. He would have liked to have closed them,
as if to put them out of their misery. But he knew that job had to be left to
the doctor.
He
went outside again and leant against the wall. Three people were watching the
house from further down the lane. The neighbour must have already spread the
word that Uludag had died and they had gathered to watch events. He turned his
back, confident that they would come no nearer. They wouldn’t want to be
singled out and they would probably know that he was the same policeman who had
been making enquiries the day before."
