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Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 1)

A compelling crime thriller not to be missed
  • Author
    • Barbara Nadel
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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 émigré, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...
  • Published: Feb 03 2000
  • Pages: 448
  • 178 x 110mm
  • ISBN: 9780747262176
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Press Reviews

  • 'Intriguing, exotic whodunnit... Local colour judiciously applied and ethnic differences skilfully explored. A first novel: exciting, accomplished and original' Literary Review
  • Independent
    `Best crime fiction of the year by a new writer was Barbara Nadel's Belshazzar's Daughter... great blooming baroque plot (ditto talent)'
  • Evening Standard
    `This is an extraordinarily interesting first novel'
  • 'An unusual and very well written first novel...Although the murder mystery is intriguing, it is the characters who make this book so successful' Sunday Telegraph
  • 'Ikmen will go far...will have you looking over your shoulder' Scotsman
  • The Times
    `Really refreshing to encounter something as idiosyncratic and evocative among debut novels as Barbara Nadel's Istanbul-set thriller'
  • Sunday Telegraph
    `Unusual and very well-written'
  • Belshazzar's Daughter has been chosen by Jane Jakeman in Saturday's INDEPENDENT weekend review section as 'Best crime fiction by a new writer...a great blooming baroque plot (ditto talent).'
  • Scotsman
    `Will have you looking over your shoulder'
  • 'This is an extraordinarily interesting first novel: the idea which drives its plot is an intriguing one; the Istanbul background is richly and thickly layered; the diverse cast of characters exhibits most of the psychoses known to man: while Cetin Ikmen is a detective one hopes to see more of' TJ Binyon, Evening Standard
  • 'It's really refreshing to encounter something as idiosyncratic and evocative among debut novels as Barbara Nadel's Istanbul-set thriller BELSHAZZAR'S DAUGHTER, which matches a multi-layer description of its locale with an equally complex plot' The Times T
  • Good Book Guide
    Evocative and idiosyncratic