A court at Constantinople

A Court at Constantinople

By Anthony Earth

Genre:-Historical

Pages:-358

Blurb:-It is dangerous for lawyers and lovers when civilisations clash.

 Under coercion, James Bingham, a struggling English barrister, joins Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Consular Court at Constantinople. Osman Mehmed, a brilliant Turkish law student, loathes the British court, but the Ottoman government orders him to work with it on legal reform. Angry about injustices that women suffer, Rosamund Colborne initiates a relationship with James to escape a grim future dictated by her ruthless father.

 The court's cases and the courtship's twists intertwine the fates of Mehmed, James and Rosamund and force each to question what love and justice mean. With the Ottoman and British empires increasingly at odds, power, prejudice, and passions endanger the court, the heart's desires, and the relationship between the European and Islamic civilisations.

 At this precarious moment, a brutal crime threatens to destroy what law and affection have created. The trail reveals shocking secrets, and its violent end rouse courage by rosamund, James, and Mehmed to see justice done and love prevail.

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My review:-The story is set in 1800s in Constantinople. The legal system isn't the same in Constantinople as it is in England, as James Bingham finds out. Osman Mehmed is a great Turkish law student and doesn't like anything about the British courts, buts gets told to work with it and also work with James. Rosamund Colborne might be in a muslin country, that doesn't think much of women, as the justice system has shown her and others. Rosamund wants to do what she can, but its not easy with a father that dictates everything she does. James and Rosamund start a relationship which is against everything especially her father. There is so much going on in this book, it took me longer than normal to read it. There is a lot of legal terms, some I wasn't sure of.