Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a sheikh in a dervish order, rapes her–and condemns her to death for shaming the family. Asked...

(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...

A young thief known as “the Ghost” roams seventh-century Constantinople, tangling in political feuds and petty theft, using his eerie gifts of persuasion and stealth. With his father away at war and his mother devastated by his little sister’s...

Inspector Ikmen, Book 24 When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweller’s home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of...

Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of...

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbor – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining...

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 14) Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man...

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 15) When Inspector Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul’s famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Halfway through the evening, one of...

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 12) When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process, Istanbul’s...

(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...