
Blood Business (Ikmen Mystery 22)
- Author Barbara Nadel
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher Headline
- Run Time 11 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural.
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What to expect
Brothers Ugur and Lokman Bulut are locked in a bitter inheritance battle and need a sample of their mother’s DNA to contest her Will. But when her body is exhumed, her corpse is found to be missing and a fresh body, with its heart removed, has been put in her grave. Assigned to the case, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman quickly realises that the heart has been illegally harvested, and his team has a murder inquiry on its hands.
Meanwhile, retired inspector Çetin Ikmen is tracking down a missing person: Sevval Kalkan, a once-famous actress, who has joined an underground movement called the Moral Maze, whose mission is to help the destitute living on Istanbul’s streets. The unidentified body in the grave cannot be Sevval’s, but her shocking reappearance leads Ikmen to fear that she, too, is a victim of organ harvesting…
Joining forces, Süleyman and Ikmen confront Istanbul’s darkest underbelly to expose the horrifying truth of a city in crisis.
(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Limited
Critics Review
Praise for Barbara Nadel’s novels: ‘Intelligent and captivating
Sunday TimesComplex and beguiling: a Turkish delight
Mick HerronInspector Çetin Ikmen is one of detective fiction’s most likeable investigators, despite his grumpy and unsociable character…think of him as the Morse of Istanbul
Daily TelegraphImpeccable mystery plotting, exotic and atmospheric
GuardianThe delight of Nadel’s books is the sense of being taken beneath the surface of an ancient city… We look into the alleyways and curious dark quarters of Istanbul, full of complex characters and louche atmosphere
IndependentGripping and unusual detective story, vivid and poignant
Literary Review
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