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Author |
: Barbara Nadel |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2014-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466869288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466869283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belshazzar's Daughter by : Barbara Nadel
A spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys that the Literary Review (UK) called "exciting, accomplished and original". When a brutal murder shocks Istanbul's rundown Jewish quarter, the Turkish police force unleashes their best weapon - the chain-smoking, brandy-swilling Inspector Cetin Ikmen, husband to a strict Muslim woman (who disapproves of his drinking) and loving father of eight (with another on the way). With a colorful, multi-layered setting and a delicious labyrinthine plot, Barbara Nadel's Belshazzar's Daughter is a stunning and evocative crime debut, and Inspector Ikmen will surely join the ranks of beloved foreign cops Aureilo Zen and Guido Brunetti.
Author |
: Barbara Nadel |
Publisher |
: Headline |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2010-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780755382132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0755382137 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 1) by : Barbara Nadel
Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Barbara Nadel introduces Inspector Cetin Ikmen for the first time in her debut novel, Belshazzar's Daughter. The Ikmen mysteries have been highly praised: 'İkmen is one of modern crime fiction's true heroes, complex yet likeable, and the city he inhabits - Istanbul - is just as fascinating' The Times 'Barbara Nadel's distinctive Istanbul-set Inspector İkmen thrillers combine brightly coloured scene setting with deliciously tortuous plots' Guardian A secret worth killing for... 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 émigré, 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 aristocracies in modern day Istanbul' 'An intense psychological drama with an impressive array of characters and colourful descriptions of the less salubrious areas of Istanbul. Nadel successfully evokes the hot sultry atmosphere of modern Turkey'
Author |
: Barbara Nadel |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2013-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466861572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466861576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ottoman Cage by : Barbara Nadel
Barbara Nadel's The Ottoman Cage is a spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys. 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?
Author |
: Ruth Rendell |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439150337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439150338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Monster in the Box by : Ruth Rendell
From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.
Author |
: E.H. Young |
Publisher |
: Virago |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2020-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780349014128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0349014124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Miss Mole by : E.H. Young
'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Beauman WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?' Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old women.Now, aged forty, a thin and shabby figure, she returns to Radstowe, the lovely city of her youth. Here she is, if not exactly welcomed, at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder, whose daughters are sorely in need of guidance. But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole. Blessed with imagination, wit and intelligence, she wins the affection of Ethel and her nervous sister Ruth. But her past holds a secret that, if brought to life, would jeopardise everything.
Author |
: Josephine Tey |
Publisher |
: BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2023-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9782385086206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 2385086204 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Love and Be Wise by : Josephine Tey
A witty and sophisticated mystery featuring bestselling author Josephine Tey's popular Inspector Alan Grant, a beloved character created by a woman considered to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own?
Author |
: Esmahan Aykol |
Publisher |
: Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2011-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781904738718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1904738710 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hotel Bosphorus by : Esmahan Aykol
Katie Hirschel is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only mystery bookshop. When the director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel Katie starts her own maverick investigation. After all her friend Petra is the police’s principal suspect and reading all those detective novels must have taught Katie something.
Author |
: Barbara Nadel |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2021-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472273505 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472273508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forfeit (Ikmen Mystery 23) by : Barbara Nadel
GREED, LUST AND BETRAYAL LEAD TO MURDER in Barbara Nadel's twenty-third Ikmen mystery, as Ikmen and Süleyman work to uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives... In the early hours of the morning, Turkish TV star Erol Gencer is found dead at his home on the outskirts of Istanbul. But he is not alone. Beside him lies a Syrian refugee whose stomach has been split open with a cheese knife. Did Gencer kill his guest before committing suicide, or are they victims of a sinister double murder? The dead Syrian is soon identified as Wael Al Hussain, whose wife, Samira, is in prison for attempting to kill Gencer a year ago. At the time, no one believed Samira's story that Gencer's wife had planned the attack, but now Samira's sister begs Çetin Ikmen to re-examine her claim. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman is on leave with his teenage son, Patrick, who is visiting from Ireland, but when Detective Kerim Gürsel's transsexual ex-lover, Pembe, is also murdered, shortly after confessing that Wael Al Hussain had used her for sexual favours, Süleyman knows he must help Kerim solve this complex case. Entering a world of the Syrian diaspora, where tales of mythical storytellers abound, Ikmen and Süleyman uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives where nothing is at it seems...
Author |
: Jussi Adler-Olsen |
Publisher |
: Dutton |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780142196830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0142196835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Absent One by : Jussi Adler-Olsen
Detective Carl Morck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.
Author |
: Dilys Powell |
Publisher |
: Eland Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2019-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1780601565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781780601564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Affair of the Heart by : Dilys Powell
Dilys Powell's love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun-baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband the archaeologist Humfry Payne on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who labored on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time. Despite personal tragedy, the occupation of Greece and civil war, Powell's affair of the heart continued. She returned time and again through the '40s and '50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories of the country. Both with Humfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of shepherds, isolated stretches of coast and island with local fishermen and olive-dotted hillsides with the subsistence farmers who worked them. Out of this she has fashioned a gem of a travel book.