Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10) : Inspiration for THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, BBC Two's sensational new crime drama

by Nadel, Barbara | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 07/08/2008 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 384 pages
198 x 133 x 26mm | 314g

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?