Bride Price (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 24)

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Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen - 'one of modern crime fiction's true heroes' The Times

When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweller's home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions?

As his colleagues begin their investigation, Suleyman is distracted by troubles of his own. His wedding to Gonca Serekoglu is days away, but when Gonca receives her bridal bedcover from a Roma haberdasher and discovers that it is covered in blood, she sees this as a curse on their marriage. Suleyman asks his old friend Cetin Ikmen to help him uncover the truth, but the task is not that simple...

Meanwhile, as the stories swirling around Muftugolu become increasingly sinister, the dead man's wife appears, laying claim to his valuables, and Suleyman is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of smuggling and savagery . . .

(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

Critics Review

  • Complex and beguiling: a Turkish delight

    Mick Herron

  • Ikmen is one of modern crime fiction’s true heroes, complex yet likeable, and the city he inhabits – Istanbul – is just as fascinating

    The Times

  • Barbara Nadel’s distinctive Istanbul-set Inspector Ikmen thrillers combine brightly coloured scene setting with deliciously tortuous plots – the resourceful Ikmen is always struggling with intractable cases

    Guardian

  • Inspector 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 Telegraph

  • Ikmen and Süleyman form an easygoing if tense partnership as ever, and Nadel has no equal when it comes to summoning the dark side of her fictional environment, behind the glossy image of tourist brochures

    Crime Time

  • Nadel’s deep passion for Turkish culture and her intimate knowledge of that land come through vividly in this riveting crime drama

    Publisher's Weekly

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