Literary works developed for international readership and screen adaptation.
The Chess Murders
From its very title, the book signals that the story it contains is conceived within the framework of a game of chess. Structured around sixty-four chapters, each one corresponds to a single square on the chessboard.
As Commissioner Ercan pursues a serial killer who leaves a chess pawn in the mouths of his victims, he finds that the closer he comes to the murderer, the more he is forced to unravel the mysteries of his own life.
Poisoned Desires
An inner journey where love and murder are intricately entwined.
One man, two women.
Two loves, one corpse.
The dead ends of passion and crime.
On the morning after a night in which Kenan dined with his lover and his wife just one hour apart, his body is discovered. As testimonies are given to the police, we are drawn into lives woven tightly together.
Only one question lingers in our minds:
What would I have done?
Rain Of Blood
The video submitted to a television contest for amateur filmmakers is soon revealed to be not a staged production, but chillingly real. In the early morning hours, a man whose legs have been brutally severed by two figures dressed as clowns is found in Istanbul.
When a second tape is sent to the competition, the case draws even wider attention. As fear and panic grip the public, the clowns evolve into a macabre media phenomenon.
Their true motive remains unknown, preserving its dark mystery until the very last page.
The Key Operation
The suspicious deaths of young engineers working in Turkey’s defense industry have fueled modern conspiracy theories.
Drawing on these theories, the novel traces a shadow war of military power through HAARP, Chernobyl, and the technologies developed in pursuit of global dominance.
When two tortured bodies are discovered, homicide detectives searching for the killers are pulled into a covert battle between intelligence agencies.
As Commissioner Hakan investigates the murders, he is forced not only to uncover the truth behind the deaths, but also to confront the unresolved shadows of his own past.
A Game Within A Game
This book can be read as three separate stories by following the sections titled Murat, Kerem, and Racniş,, or as a single novel when read straight through in the order it was written, without skipping the chapter headings.
Closely connected to the era we live in, the novel draws on the confusion and illusion between virtual reality and tangible reality. It blends crime and an international criminal organization with a distinctly humorous narrative voice.
At times, the spell of magical realism is deliberately broken as the author steps into the story himself, creating a multilayered structure. Despite its surreal storytelling, the novel maintains a sense of plausibility through its credible, well-grounded characters.
Beria
Fleeing the civil war in Syria, Aisha and her daughter Beria set out on a perilous journey at the mercy of human traffickers.
At the same time, Commissioner Harun, shattered by the loss of his wife and son, spirals into psychological collapse. His uncontrollable weight gain leads to his forced retirement from the police force.
When a speedboat intercepts the migrants’ vessel at sea and abducts the children, chaos erupts. Amid the turmoil, Aisha falls into the water and is washed ashore alive.
Her path crosses with Harun’s on the Aegean coast, where he realizes that saving one child may restore meaning to his broken life.
Determined to reunite Beria with her mother, they embark on a relentless journey that will lead them across borders—until the trail of the missing girl is finally found in Belgium.
Children Of The Deadend
Before making a plan, you must first learn what others have planned for you.
An open safe, six masked corpses, and a family that vanishes without a trace.
Elif is a young woman with dreams, trapped under the control of an authoritarian father who refuses to let her pursue them. When he discovers the secret lover Elif has been hiding, he decides to marry her off to a stranger.
Learning that a large sum of money is hidden inside the safe at her father’s house, Elif devises a plan with her lover.
But plans unravel quickly—and nothing unfolds the way they imagined
Every Contact Leaves A Story 1-2
Inspired by Edmond Locard’s legendary forensic principle—“Every contact leaves a trace”—Every Touch Leaves a Story is a two-volume crime anthology featuring 30 dark, tightly woven tales.
Each story focuses not on the crime itself, but on its cause—revealing obsession, guilt, desire, and the hidden violence of human nature.
Because the most dangerous evidence is never found at the scene… it’s buried inside the mind.
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