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    Arabesk (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 3): A powerful crime thriller set in Istanbul

    Arabesk (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 3): A powerful crime thriller set in Istanbul

    by Barbara Nadel


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      ISBN-13: 9780755386420
    • Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, Limited
    • Publication date: 05/12/2011
    • Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
    • Format: eBook
    • Sales rank: 173,446
    • File size: 3 MB

    Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel used to work in mental health services. Born in the East End of London, she now writes full time and has been a visitor to Turkey for over twenty years. She received the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger for her novel DEADLY WEB.

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    Inspector Ikmen and Inspector Suleyman return in Arabesk, Barbara Nadel's third novel in the gripping Inspector Ikmen series. Perfect for fans of Jason Goodwin and Adrian Magson.

    'The delight of the Nadel book is the sense of being taken beneath the surface of an ancient city which most visitors see for a few days at most' - Independent

    When the wife of one of Istanbul's best known popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly promoted Inspector Suleyman, scion of one of Turkey's most aristocratic families, finds himself plunged into the magnificently vulgar, overblown world of Arabesk music, dominated by an ageing star, the monstrous chanteuse, Tansu.

    What readers are saying about Arabesk:

    'Written with wit and style, her plotting and characterisation are as sharp and original as ever'

    'A city and its crowded streets and ancient cultures come vividly alive - colours, sounds, smells, heat and dust lifting from the page'

    'Packed to the gills with cultural insights'

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    Publishers Weekly
    Nadel's intriguing third procedural to feature Insp. Çetin Ikmen (after 2005's The Ottoman Cage) finds Ikmen suffering from ulcers and on a restricted diet. While he is sidelined, his newly promoted subordinate, Mehmet Suleyman, takes charge of a hot-button murder inquiry. Someone has used cyanide to poison Ruya Urfa, the previously secret wife of the country's Arabesk music star, Erol Urfa. Suspicion centers on the mentally impaired son of the dead woman's neighbors, whose prints are found throughout the crime scene. News that Erol was married comes as a surprise to the public and has a curious effect on his lover, an aging movie star who's resorted to cosmetic surgery to preserve her looks. While some readers will anticipate whodunit, all will appreciate the skill with which Nadel depicts the tensions underlying contemporary Turkish society as well as her ability to make each of her characters fully human. (July)

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    Library Journal
    The wife of a star of Arabesk (Arabic-style music popular with working-class Turks) is found dead and her baby missing. Inspector Suleyman finds himself entangled in a complex web of domestic crimes, personal problems, and trouble with his team. Then Inspector Ikmen, on medical leave, shows up and things really begin to happen. VERDICT Often called the Donna Leon of Istanbul, Nadel (Belshazzar's Daughter, The Ottoman Cage) offers us a look inside modern Turkey, often overshadowed by the mystique of the Ottoman Empire and overrun with poverty and stifled by political and religious conflicts. A winning series that will attract Leon fans and other readers who like their crime fiction in exotic locales.
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