Page turners; Murder and intrigue span the globe, from Byzantium to Burundi. Who's guilty? Reviewer Yvonne Zipp is on the case.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)

The Christian Science Monitor | February 24, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Yvonne Zipp

Murder in Byzantium, by Julia Kristeva ($29.50)

A killer is targeting members of the dubious New Pantheon sect in sunny Santa Varvara. (We're never told, exactly, what their crimes are, but even the police commissioner isn't terribly sorry they're dead.) Then a historian with a secret obsession for 11th-century writer Anna Comnena murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked? Returning characters Stephanie Delacour and Police Commissioner Northrup Rilsky engage in an affair while attempting to solve Santa Varvara's latest ...

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