A Chemical Prison (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 2)
Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new crime drama
$35.70
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2001
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’r…
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: | 7 February 2001 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 177mm x 117mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Inspector Ikmen Mystery |
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‘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 StandardA 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’ IndependentAbout The Author
Barbara Nadel
Barbara Nadel is a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship.
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