Cross-Dressing Sleuth Triumphs in Novels by Former Citi Manager

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Cross-Dressing Sleuth Triumphs in Novels by Former Citi Manager

Interview by Steve Bryant

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a0NHhcCJWxiY&refer=home

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- After a hard day of computer programming and martial-arts training, Burcak Veral dresses up as Audrey Hepburn and sallies forth to solve crimes in Istanbul's transsexual community.

The cases are grisly: transsexuals raped and drowned or left to die in burning buildings. Yet it's all in a night's work for the hero-heroine who kick-boxes and jiggles through the bestselling novels of Turkish crime writer Mehmet Murat Somer.