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Turkish Delight: İstanbul and Barbara Nadel’s Inspector İkmen Series

Posted in Interviews, tagged A Nobel Killing, A Passion for Killing, A Private Business, Barbara Nadel, Belshazzar's Daughter, Dead of Night, Deadline, Death by Design, Francis H, Hakim and Arnold, Inspector Ikmen, Istanbul, Petrified, Pretty Dead Things, River of the Dead, Turkey on February 6, 2013| 2 Comments »

British writer Barbara Nadel has built a fascinating and deeply felt series of contemporary procedurals set in the Turkish capital and featuring the chain-smoking, brandy-swilling Inspector Ikmen, husband to a strict Muslim woman (who disapproves of his drinking) and loving father of numerous bairns. The plentiful books in that series have earned her the title of the Donna Leon of Istanbul. Her series debut, Belshazzar’s Daughter, finds Ikmen investigating a brutal murder in Istanbul’s rundown Jewish quarter. London’s Literary Review found that first novel an “intriguing, exotic whodunit,” and the London Independent also commended that series opener, writing, “Set in Istanbul, with a battered, cynical and credible Turkish cop, and a great blooming baroque plot (ditto talent).” (more…)