Welcome to Elizabeth Zelvin's author website. Liz is the author of two long-running series, the Bruce Kohler Mysteries and the Mendoza Family Saga. Her novels and short stories take the reader from contemporary New York to Ottoman Istanbul through the eyes of complex and endearing characters as varied as Bruce, the sardonic recovering alcoholic with more heart than he admits, and Rachel, the Jewish personal shopper to the ladies of the Sultan's harem. Liz has edited two crime fiction anthologies and authored two books of poetry with a third forthcoming.