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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780747267195

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ON SALE: 1st July 2002

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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A man’s body, virtually decapitated, is found by the Bosphorus. His identity card names him as Rifat Berisha, an Albanian. The family is impenetrable but when Inspector Cetin Ikmen, whose mother was Albanian, consults his cousin, Samsun, he’s left in little doubt that Berisha’s death is likely to be the result of a fis, an implacable blood feud between rival Albanian families. Which means the blood already shed will have to be avenged. And if the Berishas or their enemies discover Ikmen is from a noted Albanian clan, some of the spilt blood might be his…

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Intelligent and captivating...recalls Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen
Sunday Times
It's the characters more than the mystery which makes this series so fascinating
Sunday Telegraph
Mixing Ikmen's police work with parapsychology, blood and intuition makes for a read that is as riveting as it is undeniably disturbing
Good Book Guide