BARBARA NADEL

Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?

Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman out onto the dark streets of Istanbul. On 21 January, a half-decapitated corpse in the poor multicultural district of Tarlabasi poses a particularly frustrating and gruesome mystery. But as the months pass and the violence increases, it turns into a hunt for that rare phenomenon in the golden city on the Bosphorus: a serial killer. Desperate to uncover the killer's twisted logic as the body count rises, Ikmen and Suleyman find only more questions. How are the victims connected? What is the significance of the number 21? And how many Istanbullus must die before they find the answers?

Detective and mystery stories. When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen''s investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across Istanbul in the sixties. Her husband suspects that she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked?

December 29, 1940, the night Hitler has chosen to destroy London. His main target- St Paul ''s Cathedral - is where undertaker Francis Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the troubled First World War veteran has more than the Luftwaffe to contend with on this terifying night; a young girl, who has also chosen to shelter in the cathedral, mysteriously vanishes. As the bombs continue to fall, some of those charged with guarding the famous lanmark are brutally murdered. Is a cold-blooded predator taking advantage of the chaos to settle old scores? And have they taken the girl? Hancock must overcome his own demons if he is to stand a chance of surviving this night and catching a killer ...

This series has brilliantly established itself and this latest is another masterpiece from Barbara NadelCRIMESQUAD A friend from the past asks for private investigator Lee Arnolds help in tracing his son: Fayyad alBarri was last thought to be in Syria having embraced radical Islam. But a cryptic message has prompted his family to believe Fayyad has had a change of heart and is searching for a way back home. With fellow investigator Mumtaz Hakims help, they might be able to establish contact. From the bright lights of the Western world, to shady boxing clubs and murky online jihadist recruitment, and while violence erupts close to home, Mumtaz and Lee are on an unknown path into the mind of a terrorist, journeying closer to danger than they ever imagined.

Ever since it was built in 1912, Woolwich Foot Tunnel has been the subject of rumour and speculation. Running underneath the Thames it connects north and south, and in the hot summer of 1976, when young John Saunders apparently entered the Tunnel and completely disappeared on his way to his sisters house, it was a grim and frightening place. John was never seen again until he re-emerged forty-two years later, complete with an American accent. Happy to submit to the DNA testing his sister Brenda demands, this man is definitely John Saunders, but when nothing that he tells Brenda rings true, she decides to enlist the services of Hakim and Arnold to try and uncover the truth. He is who he says he is, but his story about what happened between 1976 and 2018 makes no sense. Why has he come back now . what does he want?

The triumphantly accomplished second novel by award-winning author Barbara Nadel

In the summer of 1976, young John Saunders disappeared in Woolwich Foot Tunnel. Forty-two years later he re-emerges, complete with an American accent. Whilst a DNA test confirms his identity, his story does not ring true... what really happened and why has he come back?

In the shadow of St Pauls, Arnold and Hakim are drawn into an investigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now.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 TimesWhen 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?

In the shadow of St Pauls, Arnold and Hakim are drawn into aninvestigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

Irving Levy is a man with few roots and, now that he is terminally ill, is anxious to find anyone to whom he can leave his considerable property. When he learns that there may be more to the disappearance of his younger sister, who disappeared when she was a baby, he engages the services of Hakim and Arnold to investigate. Unwittingly in mortal danger, the private detectives and Levy enter the world of Barking Park Fair and the secrets its brightly coloured attractions conceal. Secrets that lead them not just back to a crime committed in 1963, but to the chaotic world of post-war Europe where few people were what they seemed.

London, December 2019. Two young boys, Habib and Loz, are trying their luck at selling knock-off pain remedies to pensioners. But they are troubled by an encounter with a potential elderly customer and a young man with a blood-smeared face.Mumtaz Hakim wants to help if she and her partner Lee Arnold can, even though theres no way their detective agency could reasonably charge the boys. While they set about uncovering the truth behind the odd situation in the shadow of St Pauls Cathedral, they find themselves drawn into a gruesome investigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

Barbara Nadel s gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective BBC Two s sensational eight part TV crime drama series out now A secret worth killing for Barbara Nadel introduces Inspector Cetin Ikmen for the first time in her debut novel Belshazzar s Daughter Perfect for fans of Jason Goodwin and Donna Leon Exciting accomplished and original Literary Review 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 What readers are saying about Belshazzar s Daughter An engaging fascinating picture of life in Turkey Wonderful characters and a deep plot that constantly draws one to read on An excellent murder mystery set in the twilight world of old aristoc

The powerful third novel from one of crime fictions most original talents

The streets of East London are alive with different languages, cultures and religions. Private investigators Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim are well-versed in the communitys tensions, the sad day-to-day reality that includes the desecration of graves at Plashet Jewish cemetery in East Ham.The vandalism of these final resting places leads to a disturbing discovery: one of the damaged coffins does not contain human remains but instead a sculpture of a man made of clay. This so-called golem, a term from Jewish myth given to a figure brought to life by supernatural means, proves intriguing to Arnold and Hakim, even more so when it is stolen from a police storage facility in an armed raid.The case leads the pair deep into Londons past and its connections to wartime Prague, and onto the trail of a priceless jewel worth killing for.