A Passion for Killing - Softcover

Nadel, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755337522 ISBN 13: 9780755337521

Publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Love and greed make a deadly combination in this riveting new crime novel from Barbara Nadel

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Review:

Nadel's novels take in all of Istanbul - the mysterious, the beautiful, the hidden, the banal... Fascinating (Scotland on Sunday)

Nadel makes full use of the rich variety of possibilities offered by modern Istanbul and its inhabitants... both a well-crafted mystery and a form of armchair tourism, with Nadel as an expert guide (Spectator)

Praise for Barbara Nadel's Ikmen series: 'Really refreshing to encounter something as idiosyncratic and evocative...as Barbara Nadel's Istanbul-set thriller (The Times)

Unusual and very well-written (Sunday Telegraph)

Intriguing, exotic...exciting, accomplished and original (Literary Review)

Full of complex characters and louche atmosphere (Independent)

Intelligent and captivating...recalls Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series (The Sunday Times)

Exotic and atmospheric (Guardian)

Synopsis:

A killer with means but no motive, and the body count is rising! A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul. A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could he be a victim of the 'Peeper', a murderer whose target up until now has been gay men? The body of the man is delivered to forensics, but it is entirely clean. Has someone tampered with it? Inspector Mehmet Suleyman finds himself under increasing pressure from his contact at the Turkish Secret Service to keep his findings to himself...Meanwhile a young carpet dealer, on the brink of a huge sale, is found dead in the mangled remains of his Jeep. The deal would have made him -- the carpet he wanted to sell used to belong to Lawrence of Arabia. Inspector Cetin Ikmen finds out that just as the carpet's rich history is stained by bloodshed, so the young man hides a sinister and deadly secret!

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755337522
• ISBN 13: 9780755337521
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334