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Authors: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Serenity Murders

A PENGUIN MYSTERY

The Serenity Murders

MEHMET MURAT SOMER
was born in Ankara in 1959. His
Turkish Delight
crime series hit number one on Turkey’s bestseller lists, where it remained for months, and has since been published in fourteen countries (UK, United States, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Egypt, and Turkey). He is a screenwriter for both film and television, and a classical music critic for various newspapers and magazines. He lives in Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, and occasionally in other corners of the world, as long as there is enough sunlight.

The
Serenity
Murders

•  M E H M E T   M U R A T   S O M E R  •

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First published in Penguin Books 2012

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Copyright © Mehmet Murat Somer, 2004
Translation copyright © Amy Marie Spangler, 2012
All rights reserved

Originally published in Turkish under the title
Huzur Cimayetleri.

Publisher’s Note
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product
of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Somer, Mehmet Murat, 1959–
[Huzur cimayetleri. English]
The serenity murders / Mehmet Murat Somer.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-101-60307-9
1. Transvestites—Turkey—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Turkey—Fiction.
3. Istanbul (Turkey)—Fiction. I. Title.
PL248.S557H8913 2013
894’.3534—dc23

2012030581

Printed in the United States of America
Set in Dante MT
Designed by Elke Sigal

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ALWAYS LEARNING
PEARSON

Cast of Characters

Burçak Veral
The Turkish Delight protagonist
Sofya
Ex-stage star, retired but still impressive, has dark relations
Ponpon/Zekeriya
Transvestite drag star, best friend
Figen
Secretary in the office
Cüneyt
Bodyguard at the club
Hasan
Maitre’d of the club
Osman
DJ at the club
Şükrü
Barman at the club, loves twinks
Yavuz
Young man from suburbs, customer at the club, usually dancing topless
İpekten
Transvestite friend, very chic, elegant, out of Harper’s Bazaar
Selçuk Tayanç
Childhood friend, now a department director for the police
Hüseyin Talip Kozalak
Taxi driver at the neighborhood, has a crush on Burçak
Satı
Cleaning lady, maid
Refık Altın
Gay poet, lyricist
Ayla Tayanç
Childhood friend, once a nemesis, now wife of Selçuk
Belinda D.
Very famous and powerful DJ, music critic, guru of Turkish pop
Jihad2000/Kemal Barutçu
Computer hacker, doomed to wheelchair, with bizarre sexual drives
Cem Yegğenogğlu
Hypnotherapist
Ricardo
Drag star from Brazil
Hümeyra
Neighborhood woman who works at the bank
İsmail Kozalak
Hüseyin’s father, ironmonger
Kevser Kozalak
Hüseyin’s mother
Taık
Another taxi driver from the neighborhood, buddy of Hüseyin
Sermet Kiliç
Aikido and Tai chi master
Hilmi Kulogğlu
Square-faced commissar of the Homicide Department
Aykut Batur
Ex-chorister at the opera, now going onto pop
Alberto Maggıore
New York mortician, makeup master
Andelıp Turhan
Tarot master, always in queer dresses
Bahadır
Young and fresh lover of Gül
Bedirhan ender
Health food and diet master
Buket
TV programmer
Cavit Ate‚
Reiki master
Cemil Kazancı
Mafia head
Gazanfer
Grocery wholesaler, usually silent customer at the club
Gül Tamay
Reiki master
Hakan Akincı
Tantra master
Haydar Hocaev
Bioenergy master from Azerbaijan
Koral Kohen
Gossip columnist
Mehmet Murat Somer
Bestselling author
Morlu Kadın
The angelic woman
Nılgün Kutlu
Yoga and meditation master
Nımet Hanoğlu
Faruk’s wealthy widow
Süheyl Arkın
TV programmer
Vildan Karaca
Crystal and feng shui master, always in hurry
Yılmaz Karataş
Small and dark Mafia bodyguard
Wimpy Ferdı
Weird neighbor
Alı
Money-counter, freelance computing employer
Afet
Red-haired Reiki expert
Melek
Young girl from the Kozalaks’ neighborhood
Genteel Gönül
Tranvestite acquintance, lower class than most but tries hard to sound classy
Şırın Güney
Yoga and meditation specialist, girlfriend of Cavit Ateş

The Girls at the Club

Beyza (Dumptruck Beyza)
Overweight transvestite at the club
Demet Kıllı (Hairy Demet)
Transvestite at the club, no waxing, kind of kinky
Elvan
Ignorant transvestite at the club
Karakaş Lulu
Hot-tempered transvestite at the club
Mehtap
Tall and red-wigged transvestite at the club
Müjde
Chubby transvestite at the club
Pamir / Yahya
Aggressive transvestite at the club
Sakallı Barbi
(Bearded Barbie)
Transvestite at the club

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