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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755332359

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ON SALE: 5th June 2006

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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A body is discovered in a cave in the remote region of Cappadocia, Turkey. The woman died of gunshot wounds, and her corpse has lain undisturbed for twenty years. Inspector Cetin Ikmen is summoned from Istanbul to investigate and discovers a complex web of intrigue. Was she killed by her boyfriend, driven mad by love, or her husband, believing she would never bear the son he wanted so badly? When it is revealed the girl was pregnant when she died, the whispers and accusations increase. Ikmen, stifled among a rural community thriving on folklore and intrigue, begins to think he will never see clearly through the lies surrounding this case. One thing, however, is clear: the past is as potent as the present.

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Reviews

Praise for Barbara Nadel's Ikmen series: 'Really refreshing to encounter something as idiosyncratic and evocative...as Barbara Nadel's Istanbul-set thriller
The Times
Unusual and very well-written
Sunday Telegraph
Intriguing, exotic...exciting, accomplished and original
Literary Review
Full of complex characters and louche atmosphere
Independent
Intelligent and captivating...recalls Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series
The Sunday Times
Exotic and atmospheric
Guardian