When Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul's famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Walking in the steps of the great Agatha Christie, Ikmen experiences fear and hatred which have echoes deep in his own past.[...]
The 15th Turkish crime novel from Barbara Nadel, "the Donna Leon of Istanbul" When Inspector Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul's famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Halfway through the evening, one of the actors is f[...]
Any bloody death will lead Inspectors ?etin Ikmen and Mehmet S?leyman 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 increas[...]
2012: London is hosting the Olympics and the East End is at the centre of the world. Yet surrounding the glamorous Olympic Park are some of the most deprived areas of the city. PI Lee Arnold and his assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, work in these streets, in a community fraught with tensions. When Arnold is [...]
A new crime series featuring a former policeman and soldier turned PI and his Muslim assistant.
It is London 2012 and Stratford in the East End is at the centre of the world. But next to the Olympic Park are some of the poorest and most crime-ridden streets in the city. PI Lee Arnold and his assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, run a detective agency in a community fraught with conflict and tension. Appro[...]
London's East End has always been a social and racial melting pot and never more so than today. PI Lee Arnold and his assistant Mumtaz Hakim don't mind - it keeps them on their toes. It is November. The days are getting darker and they have a new case on their hands. A young Asian couple moves into [...]
Private investigator Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim investigate the brutal murder of a homeless man.[...]
A body is found in the ruined Constantinople hippodrome: a woman, clutching a piece of red stone. She's recently given birth, but there's no sign of the baby. Inspector Cetin Ikmen discovers she was a Byzantine specialist on a crusade to protect the historic but now squalid areas of Istanbul that he[...]
Set against the Gezi Park uprising of 2013, this is the 17th crime thriller featuring Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmut Suleyman in Istanbul[...]
Private investigator Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim investigate the death of a young woman and find there's more to the case than meets the eye.[...]
Private investigator and ex-soldier Lee Arnold and police superintendent Paul Venus are by no means friends, but when Venus' son Harry is kidnapped and ransom demands arrive from an address in Arnold's patch in east London, the superintendent doesn't know who else to turn to. Arnold and his Muslim a[...]
Den omåttligt poluläre arabeskartisten Erol Urfas hemliga fru blir mördad, och den aristokratiske kommmissarie Suleyman måste ge sig in i den folkligt traditionella och plebejiska världen kring arabeskmusiken.I boken stiger vi ner i Karaköys slum till bl.a. badhusinnehavaren Madame Kleopatra s[...]
Çetin Ikmen inser att mordet han utreder leder rakt in i en blodshämnd där hemligheten kring hans mors död nu riskerar hans eget liv.Djupa vatten är den fjärde boken av åtta i Nadels Istanbulserie med kommissarie Çetin Ikmen.[...]
"Ända sedan Luftwaffe började med sitt försök att bomba oss tillbaka till Hedenhös, har vi Hancocks, precis som alla andra begravningsentreprenörer öster om Picadilly, arbetat för fulla muggar."
Begravningsentreprenören Hancock är inte främmande för döden, och under London[...]