SULTAN'S SEAL

A gripping tale of murder in nineteenth-century Istanbul ... The naked bodyof a young English woman washes up in the Bosphorus wearing a pendantinscribed with the tughra, the Sultan's seal, found only on possessions ofthe imperial household. The Turkish magistrate Kamil Pasha sets out to findthe killer, but encounters a web of obstacles and links to the earlierkilling of another English woman. Were these political murders involvingthe palace or crimes of personal passion? Sybil, the daughter of theEnglish ambassador, uses her connections to help Kamil infiltrate thesecret world of the harem. As they untangle the threads, they makepowerful enemies in a society where the forces of tradition and modernitycollide.