In a world in which Constantinople did not fall to the Turks in the 15th century, murders of clergymen are occurring all over the city. Nicolai Barachev, Constantinople Homicide, is ejected by the CIA, the Constantinople Imperial Agency from the investigation of the murder of a bishop whose body is found in a noisome alley. Not just a simple jurisdictional dispute, he finds himself perpetuated into a dark plot that involves every level of government. As the body count rises, he is running for his life with the woman he loves in an attempt to stop the assassination of no less than the Emperor himself. The Byzantine Murders is a non-stop excursion into a world of intrigue, violence and murder as it was in the Byzantine Empire when Emperors slept uneasily in their beds, and Kings watched their backs with great care.