The Writer's Biographical Sketch:

 Ercan Akbay is a writer, painter and musician, born 12th February 1959 in Istanbul. He studied finance at university and has worked in many different fields throughout his life. He managed a jazz club; he founded companies in various sectors. He has worked in the stock market, invested to renovating old buildings, music and ballet production, old film and record restoration, concert and sound recording and film montage, book cover and poster designing, and other fields, and still continues to work in some of them today. He also regularly exhibits his paintings and has two music albums to his name. As an author, starting his career in 1996 with short stories and screenplays, he has written three novels and one collection of stories.

SCENT OF SKIN
a novel by Ercan Akbay
430 pages

Voices fly away, action is forgotten, eye is deceived; as for the scent, it leaves a lasting trace on the skin…
Like a drop of acid that burns you up in flames …

Scent of Skin tells the unique story of an illicit love affair that takes place during a journey into the mysterious world of pheromones.

AGAINST WINDMILLS
a novel by Ercan Akbay
408 pages

The story begins in the most glamorous jazz club of Istanbul in 1989. The young boss of the club finds himself entangled in a forbidden love affair with a fascinating jazz singer, Serra, which turns into a nightmare very soon. At the end, that twenty years lasting passionate adventure metamorphoses to an exciting ritual. In truth, begging desperately the pitiless monsters that decide to end the life on Earth is not any different from fighting against windmills.
‘Against Windmills’ is a breathtaking novel that will intrigue you to its shocking end with its sophisticated fiction.

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WHAT TIME IS IT, MR. WOLF?
a novel by Ercan Akbay
352 pages

This is a story about an old man stabbed to death with a screwdriver by two men who came to burgle his house and the incidents in the three days that follow. This terrible murder becomes entwined in a whirlwind romance between a man and a woman who meet in a bar one Saturday night…
The quick rhythm that makes this Ercan Akbay novel unique, the original, heartfelt narration, as well as mastery of subtle realism in character development, the fluidity of the dialogues, and the depth of the powerful and impressive content, are just some of the features that catch the eye.
The characters: the shrewd police captain, pushing retirement; Murat, a fiendishly dangerous outlaw; Arzu, a beautiful young woman embroiled in crime; Caner, a Homicide detective with serious problems of his own who only handles ‘complex and non-routine’ cases; the sheikh of a cult who has no qualms about remodeling life according to his own desires, and the other characters who have a part in these deadly events narrate the same three days from their own points of view and in their own voices.

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MEN DON’T CRY
a novel by Ercan Akbay
254 pages

“Men Don’t Cry is an intriguing, fast-paced novel which narrates strange, interlocking adventures of intense love and lust. Two like-minded fourteen year-olds, enthralled with the Bohemian lifestyle, ignore their gang, and escape from boarding school. They are unaware that the price of making their innocent dreams of freedom come true is high, and that they are about to start a fire that will have a profound effect upon the whole of their lives.
In this semi-autobiographic book, Ercan Akbay, writer of Tales of the Weird, takes us on a never-ending journey from the sordid, crime-ridden world of petty theft to art fraud, from surprising electronic discoveries to smuggled historical artifacts, from lust-fuelled loves to the deadly mysteries of insanity; once more, he succeeds in leaving a bitter aftertaste again, when confused lives cross at the novel’s striking end.

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TALES OF THE WEIRD
Stories by Ercan Akbay
136 pages

‘Tales of the Weird’ contains three strange episodes narrated in quite a different way.  Ercan Akbay, has succeeded in rendering the visual expression of this unique book with shocking vividness.
Someone Else tells what happens when a middle-class finance director decides to restart his life from scratch and experiences a kind of metamorphosis.  Setting off from Istanbul for London and then on to Port-au-Prince, it is the story of an unthinkable reincarnation that lasts until the end of a horrific ritual.
The High Roller tells of the three days of debauchery that precede a weak-willed, unmarried womanizer’s descent into the depths of depravity.  The pace of events and the siren song of gamblers’ luck take him to a point beyond what he had ever expected.
I’m the One Who’s Bad, tells of a young concert pianist’s morbid passion for an older woman while waiting to be rescued in a life boat after a serious accident involving a cruise ship.  A terrible crime has been committed; the husband of this femme fatale has killed himself along with the eight hundred other people on board, all in one go.  The hero of the story will pay a heavy price for uncovering the secret of this female spider’s fatal attraction.

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