Harem (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 5) by Barbara Nadel - ISBN: 9780747267201
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Istanbul’s secrets, a murdered girl, and a conspiracy of silence.

Harem (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 5)

Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new TV series

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2003

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Summary

The body of a teenage girl is discovered in a cistern deep below the city of Istanbul. For the Turkish police force’s most talented officer, Inspector Çetin Ikmen, this is a difficult case. The girl was his daughter’s friend and her attire, that of a nineteenth-century Ottoman, offers no easy explanation.

With his promise of justice to the dead girl’s mother still fresh on his lips, Ikmen is suddenly taken off the case and reassigned to the kidnapping of an ageing movie star’s wife. T…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780747267201
ISBN-10:0747267200
Author:Barbara Nadel
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Headline Book Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:8 October 2003
Weight:226g
Dimensions:177mm x 119mm x 27mm
Series:Inspector Ikmen Mysteries
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Critics Review

Praise for Barbara Nadel’s previous novels: An unusual and very well written first novel…Although the murder mystery is intriguing, it is the characters who make this book so successful * Sunday Telegraph *Ikmen will go far…will have you looking over your shoulder * Scotsman *Exciting, accomplished and original * Literary Review *My crime reader is raving about this author * Bookseller *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 *Mixing Ikmen’s police work with parapsychology, blood and intuition makes for a read that is as riveting as it is undeniably disturbing * Good Book Guide *Idiosyncratic and evocative * The Times *Full of complex characters and louche atmosphere * Independent *

About The Author

Barbara Nadel

Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel is now a public relations officer for rethink severe mental illness’s Good Companions Project. Her previous job was a mental health advocate in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in both schools and colleges. Born in the East End of London, she now lives in Essex and has been a regular visitor to Turkey for over twenty years.

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