Anatolian Spring

About the Book

While touring the classical sites of south-western Turkey during the early 1980s, the beautiful American wife of a rich dealer in Middle Eastern artifacts finds herself mysteriously stranded in Ephesus, and obliged to seek help from a Scottish archaeologist who faces the even more puzzling - and graver - problem of having just killed, in self-defence, an unknown assailant. Subsequent events assume a disquieting resemblance to those in a tale, half history, half myth, concerning a beautiful and murderous queen, her lover, and the fate of Croesus, last king of the region.

About the Author

A.E. Osler is a Canadian ex-university professor holding degrees from Manitoba, Oxford and London. He has studied and worked in Canada, Britain, Switzerland and France; and now lives in the Marne Valley outside Paris.

At 46 he bicycled with his then fiancŽe through the part of Turkey that provides the setting for Anatolian Spring.

This is his second novel.