The Black Book | Orhan Pamuk

During an exciting search journey for his missing wife, Ghalib tracks down any imaginable evidence in order to remove the mystery from this puzzle, to find himself impersonating Jalal, the famous journalist. He wears his clothes and answers his calls, even writes his newspaper columns, and when he receives a death threat, he discovers that the worst has not yet come. This novel is not just an unconventional mystery by the most famous Turkish Nobel laureate writer, but also an exploration journey of Istanbul in its quiet late days of 1980; where only nine months separate it from the most dangerous military coup in its history, which will abolish, forever, the monarchy.