A Chemical Prison (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2) by Barbara Nadel - ISBN: 9780747262183
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A gilded cage hides dark secrets; even old friends can’t escape.

A Chemical Prison (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2)

Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new crime drama

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    8 February 2001

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Summary

Inspector Cetin 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 both called to a flat to investigate the death of a twenty-year-old, there is no reason to think their relationship will alter. The case, however, is a strange one. Ikmen learns from the neighbours that they have never seen the man enter or leave the flat. The only visitor they’re aware of is a solitary, well-dressed Armenian. Stranger still is that the limbs of the body are withered, and the victim seems to have been kept prisoner inside a gilded cage. What is it that’s making Ikmen’s old friend Arto, himself an Armenian, especially uncomfortable about the case?

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780747262183
ISBN-10:0747262187
Author:Barbara Nadel
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Headline Book Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:8 February 2001
Weight:246g
Dimensions:29mm x 117mm x 177mm
Series:Inspector Ikmen Mystery
A Chemical Prison (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2) by Barbara Nadel - ISBN: 9780747262183
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Critics Review

‘My crime reader is raving about this author, and says this second title is better than her first, BELSHAZZAR’S DAUGHTER. They have an atmospheric Turkish setting, with an excellently drawn investigating officer. Good one and worth watching’ Bookseller

Even better than Nadel’s extraordinary first book…tightly organised…the dark, Byzantine plot springs organically from the tensions of race and class in Turkish society, which is treated with a depth and detail unusual in a crime novel - Evening Standard

‘A thriller that presents a Middle Eastern city populated by human beings, rather than specimens of oriental exotica, and a British writer who can get inside a foreign skin’ - Independent

‘Even better than Nadel’s extraordinary first book…tightly organised…the dark, Byzantine plot springs organically from the tensions of race and class in Turkish society, which is treated with a depth and detail unusual in a crime novel’ Evening Standard

A sure-fire winner - Good Book Guide

‘A thriller that presents a Middle Eastern city populated by human beings, rather than specimens of oriental exotica, and a British writer who can get inside a foreign skin’ Independent

About The Author

Barbara Nadel

Barbara Nadel is a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.

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