Product Description

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?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82033 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
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 Lancashire and has been a regular visitor to Turkey for over twenty years.

Customer Reviews

Not the best of her books by a long chalk
I've always enjoyed Barbara Nadel's novels about the Istanbul detective Cetin Ikmen but this one was a sorry showing. Clunkily plotted and poorly written she has reduced her likeable characters to mere cardboard cut-outs whilst the other characters barely make it off the page. One of the things I had always enjoyed was her deep knowledge of the Turks, Turkey and particularly Istanbul, but now this knowledge is wheeled out in indigestible chunks I would be better off looking up in a good travel guide.

I really hope this was just a one-off dip in the Ikmen series, but if you are looking at this and haven't read any of the others, don't give this one a go - it will do nothing but put you off when there are other much better ones to read.

excellent read
first book i've read by the author and not the last.set in Istanbul to the backdrop of the Liverpool v AC Milan Champions League final Pretty Dead Things is an excellent crime novel which will keep you gripped.According to the other review this isn't a patch on her other work,in which case i can't wait to read the others as i polished this off in 2 days.