"Istanbul straddles the divide of Europe and Asia, and its polyglot population of 12 million seethes with political, religious, and sexual tensions, as shown in the 16 stories in this strong entry in Akashic's noir anthology series . . . a welcome complement to the mostly...
"[In Istanbul Noir] you get blown along the shore of the Bosporus in the wealthy enclave of Bebek (Feryal Tilmac's 'Hitching in the Lodos'), hustled through the shadowy past in the bustling Aksaray (Mustafa Ziyalan's 'Black Palace'), have your mind read in the 'haven...