A Passion for Killing (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 9) - Barbara Nadel

A killer with means but no motive, and the body count is rising...

A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could he be a victim of the 'Peeper'? The body of the man is delivered to forensics, but it is entirely clean. Has someone tampered with it?

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 discovers that the young man was hiding a deadly secret...

Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel used to work in mental health services. Born in the East End of London, she now writes full time and has been a visitor to Turkey for over twenty years. She received the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger for her novel DEADLY WEB, and the Swedish Flintax Prize for historical crime fiction for her first Francis Hancock novel, LAST RIGHTS.
To find out more, follow Barbara on Twitter @BarbaraNadel or visit her website www.barbara-nadel.com

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