Belshazzar's Daughter - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312316534 ISBN 13 : 9780312316532

Synopsis

When a brutal murder takes place in Istanbul's run-down Jewish quarter, eccentric inspector Çetin Ikmen is assigned to the case by the Turkish police and pursues a labyrinthine plot throughout the area's back alleys.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man's blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer's flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian ?migr?, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...

Biographie de l'auteur

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, and the Swedish Flintax Prize for historical crime fiction for her first Francis Hancock novel, LAST RITES.
To find out more, follow Barbara on Twitter @BarbaraNadel or visit her website www.barbara-nadel.com

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312316534
• ISBN 13: 9780312316532
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible