Blogs in May 2020

Deadly Web 12th May 2020

Inspector Ikmen no. 7 A naked teenage girl is found dead near the beautiful Byzantine Yoros Castle in Turkey. She has stabbed herself through the heart but there is evidence of bizarre sexual practice. In another part of Istanbul,...

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Arabesk 11th May 2020

When the wife of one of Istanbul’s best known popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly promoted Inspector Suleyman, scion of one of Turkey’s most aristocratic families, finds himself plunged into the magnificently vulgar,...

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On the Bone 9th May 2020

The brand-new Istanbul crime thriller staring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, ‘the Morse of Istanbul’ (Daily Telegraph), from Barbara Nadel. ON THE BONE is perfect for fans of Donna Leon. In Istanbul – the golden city on the Bosphorus – ancient...

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The House of Four 28th February 2017

Everyone in the Istanbul suburb of Moda knows the Devil’s House. A crumbling Ottoman mansion and once the home of a princess, it is a place associated with ill-fortune. The princess’s 4 children, now in old age, still live...

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Body Count 29th November 2014

Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Çetin Ikmen and Mehmet Süleyman out onto the dark streets of Istanbul. On 21 January, a half-decapitated corpse in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi poses a particularly frustrating and gruesome mystery. But...

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