BARBARA NADEL

Detective and mystery stories. When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen''s investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across Istanbul in the sixties. Her husband suspects that she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked?

December 29, 1940, the night Hitler has chosen to destroy London. His main target- St Paul ''s Cathedral - is where undertaker Francis Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the troubled First World War veteran has more than the Luftwaffe to contend with on this terifying night; a young girl, who has also chosen to shelter in the cathedral, mysteriously vanishes. As the bombs continue to fall, some of those charged with guarding the famous lanmark are brutally murdered. Is a cold-blooded predator taking advantage of the chaos to settle old scores? And have they taken the girl? Hancock must overcome his own demons if he is to stand a chance of surviving this night and catching a killer ...

Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?

Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman 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 as the months pass and the violence increases, it turns into a hunt for that rare phenomenon in the golden city on the Bosphorus: a serial killer. Desperate to uncover the killer's twisted logic as the body count rises, Ikmen and Suleyman find only more questions. How are the victims connected? What is the significance of the number 21? And how many Istanbullus must die before they find the answers?

Barbara Nadel s gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective BBC Two s sensational eight part TV crime drama series out now A secret worth killing for Barbara Nadel introduces Inspector Cetin Ikmen for the first time in her debut novel Belshazzar s Daughter Perfect for fans of Jason Goodwin and Donna Leon Exciting accomplished and original Literary Review Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat Istanbul s decrepit Jewish quarter a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man s blood But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant Suleyman to two people Robert Cornelius a teacher observed outside Meyer s flat shortly after the murder and a retired businessman Reinhold Smits known to have had Nazi sympathies But another link connects these two a ninety year old Russian emigre Maria Gulcu a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for What readers are saying about Belshazzar s Daughter An engaging fascinating picture of life in Turkey Wonderful characters and a deep plot that constantly draws one to read on An excellent murder mystery set in the twilight world of old aristoc

The powerful third novel from one of crime fictions most original talents

British author Nadel's deep passion for Turkish culture and her intimate knowledge of that land come through vividly in this riveting crime drama set in present-day Istanbul, but with roots in two of the last century's epic bloodbaths. Police Inspector Aetin Ikmen, alcoholic, chain-smoking, but somehow endearing, looks into the brutal murder and disfigurement of an aged Jewish immigrant that appears to have neo-Nazi implications. With his youthful colleague Mehmet Suleyman in tow, Ikmen leads us through the back alleys, brothels and barrooms of the city's roughest neighborhoods in an absorbing investigation that involves suspects of many nationalities and mental states, each suffering from a different form of madness or obsession. Midway through their complicated inquiry, Ikmen declares that the case is like reconstructing "a shattered mirror" whose pieces have flown off in many different directions. With rapid scene shifts and a constantly changing cast of characters, that mirror is gradually pieced back together to provide a glimpse of the gory end of the tsarist regime in Russia nearly a century ago, and the ongoing terrors of those who survived the carnage only to relive it in their minds. Stunning final twists in this disturbing tale suggest that history's cycles of violence and evil will continue unabated. FYI: This is the author's first book to be published in the U.S.

With a fascinating and topical background, the powerful fourth novel from one of crime fictions outstanding writers

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 A etin 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. The star is hiding something and so, Ikmen fears, are his superiors. A powerful secret exists in the labyrinthine city; one which those on either side of the law will do anything to prevent surfacing...

The triumphantly accomplished second novel by award-winning author Barbara Nadel

In the summer of 1976, young John Saunders disappeared in Woolwich Foot Tunnel. Forty-two years later he re-emerges, complete with an American accent. Whilst a DNA test confirms his identity, his story does not ring true... what really happened and why has he come back?

In the shadow of St Pauls, Arnold and Hakim are drawn into an investigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

In the shadow of St Pauls, Arnold and Hakim are drawn into aninvestigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now.Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen - 'one of modern crime fiction's true heroes' The TimesWhen 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 extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions?

Estambul, punto de encuentro de todas las culturas mediterráneas, es el escenario de esta historia que nos hará retroceder hasta el pasado histórico de Rusia. Cuando el viejo ruso Meyer aparece muerto en el barrio judio de Estambul todo parece indicar que se trata de un crimen racista. Sin embargo, como el inspector Ikmen no parece conformarse con esta explicacion, no duda en recorrer los rincones mas sordidos de la ciudad en busqueda de mas pistas. Al mismo tiempo, Robert Cornelius, ingles afincado en la capital turca, sospecha de la hermosa y misteriosa Natalia, a quien vio salir del edificio del ruso el mismo dia del crimen. La hija de Baltasar es un retrato palpitante de un siglo marcado por violentos conflictos, cuyo sorprendente final sugiere que muchas heridas historicas continuan abiertas.

Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy...An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a young man. In an ancient part of the Jewish quarter, two children are missing. Their father, an artist whose genius borders on insanity, only seems more driven in his work. And a raid on a Russian gangster yields nothing except the dead body of a girl he claims is his daughter. Could the connection to all cases lie in a macabre forgotten art? But Inspector Cetin Ikmen''s worries aren''t just work-related. His protege, Suleyman, is going dangerously off the rails, threatening to compromise not just himself but months of painstaking investigation. Ikmen faces a complex case which threatens to rock the very fabric of Turkish society.

In the dark days of the Blitz, crime goes undercover... It is October 1940 and undertaker Francis Hancock is called out to Epping Forest to attend to the corpse of a young gypsy girl who has died suddenly. At the wake, a gypsy named Lily claims to see a vision of the ''Blessed Virgin''. Meanwhile the Military Police are looking for a German spy - Martin Stojka - who they believe is a Nazi spy.Then Lily is found stabbed through the chest. Could it be a crime of passion or cold-bloodedmurder? Is Martin Stojka who he says he is? There is someone lurking in the shadows who will stop at nothing to find what Martin has in his possession...