Blogs in July 2024

Petrified 12th July 2024

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 6) Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy… An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a...

Read More 

Harem 12th July 2024

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 5) ‘Nadel’s novels take in all of Istanbul – the mysterious, the beautiful, the hidden, the banal… Fascinating’ – Scotland on Sunday A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul, seemingly targeting gay men. A...

Read More 

Deep Waters 12th July 2024

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 4) With a fascinating and topical background, Deep Waters is the powerful fourth novel from one of crime fiction’s outstanding talents, Barbara Nadel. Nadel’s writing will appeal to fans of Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin. ‘Mixing...

Read More 

A Chemical Prison 12th July 2024

Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2 (also The Ottoman Cage) Inspector Çetin Ikmen and forensic pathologist Arto Sarkissian have been friends since childhood, and their work together in Istanbul’s criminal justice system has only served to cement their friendship. When they’re...

Read More 

Blood Business 26th August 2020

(Ikmen Mystery 22) Brothers Ugur and Lokman Bulut are locked in a bitter inheritance battle and need a sample of their mother’s DNA to contest her Will. But when her body is exhumed, her corpse is found to be...

Read More