ESCAPE FROM SMYRNA: a mystery novel

I'm happy to announce the publication of the long-awaited historical mystery novel, ESCAPE FROM SMYRNA. 

The book was many years in the making.  Marie-Henriette Gates, that most exacting of readers, read it in three evenings and was enthusiastic.  No better recommendation can be had!   I hope you will enjoy it, too, and recommend it to friends, libraries, and bookstores.

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Escape from Smyrna, a mystery novel set in Turkey (Istanbul, mostly) and Greece (Athens and Aegean islands), unveils the intertwining histories of three families, Anglo-American, Turkish, and Greek, bound together by an ancient necklace that incites violence yet has powers of healing and redemption. 

It is 1982. Four Swiss hippies steal a gold locket from a chapel on a barren Greek island. Soon after, it appears for sale in Istanbul's Covered Bazaar. Oran Crossmoor, a 26-year-old American, buys the locket, recognizing it as part of a lost family heirloom, a necklace of four medieval reliquaries. When he shows it to Leyla Aslanoğlu, a rich, witty octogenarian friend of his mother, she claims it as treasure of her family. But neither Oran nor Leyla has any idea that the answer to their conflict over the necklace lies in a dramatic escape from Smyrna decades earlier...

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Top Hat Books.  ISBN: 978-1-780-998497.    In both paperback and e-book format.

Available through amazon.co.uk and amazon.com, and at your favorite bookstore!