Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 1) : A compelling crime thriller not to be missed

By Barbara Nadel

Category: ['Categories:', 'Contemporary Fiction', 'Crime', 'Crime Fiction']

ISBN: 9780747262176

Rating: 3.65 (1890 reviews)

Price: $23.80

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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 emigre, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...