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The Ottoman Cage

A Novel of Istanbul

Novels of Istanbul (Volume 2)

Author: Barbara Nadel

The Ottoman Cage

The Ottoman Cage

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Barbara Nadel's The Ottoman Cage is a spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys.

Inspector Cetin Ikmen and forensic pathologist Arto Sarkissian have been friends since childhood,...

Page Count
320
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On Sale
12/31/2013

Book Details

Barbara Nadel's The Ottoman Cage is a spicy thriller set in Istanbul's back alleys.

Inspector Cetin Ikmen and forensic pathologist Arto Sarkissian have been friends since childhood, and their work together in Istanbul's criminal justice system has only served to cement their friendship. When they're both called to a flat to investigate the death of a twenty-year-old, there is no reason to think their relationship will alter.

The case, however, is a strange one. Ikmen learns from the neighbours that they have never seen the man enter or leave the flat. The only visitor they're aware of is a solitary, well-dressed Armenian. Stranger still is that the limbs of the body are withered, and the victim seems to have been kept prisoner inside a gilded cage. What is it that's making Ikmen's old friend Arto, himself an Armenian, especially uncomfortable about the case?

Imprint Publisher

Minotaur Books

ISBN

9781466861572

In The News

“Intriguing, exotic whodunnit set in the scruffy Turkish township of Balat...Local colour judiciously applied and ethnic differences (White Russian refugees, uxorious Turks, fraught British expats) skilfully explored...A first novel: exciting, accomplished and original.” —Literary Review on Belshazzar's Daughter

“Best crime fiction by a new writer was Barbara Nadel's Belshazzar's Daughter. Set in Istanbul, with a battered, cynical and credible Turkish cop, and a great blooming baroque plot (ditto talent).” —Books of the Year, Independent Weekend Review, on Belshazzar's Daughter

“An unusual and very well written first novel...Although the murder mystery is intriguing, it is the characters who make this book so successful. The police team and their little feuds, the English teacher besotted with his mysterious Turkish girlfriend, and, most memorably, the chain-smoking little Inspector Ikmen, with his eight children and pregnant wife, contribute to this portrayal of an exotically different city.” —Sunday Telegraph on Belshazzar's Daughter

“This is an extraordinarily interesting first novel: the idea which drives its plot is an intriguing one; the Istanbul background is richly and thickly layered; the diverse cast of characters exhibits most of the psychoses known to man; while Çetin Ikmen is a detective one hopes to see more of.” —Evening Standard on Belshazzar's Daughter

“This Istanbul-set-thriller combines a multi-layered description of its locale with an equally complex plot...Nadel presents a fully fledged psychological understanding worthy of the best of the genre and her plotting is satisfyingly labyrinthine. Inspector lkmen too, is a highly unusual protagonist, characterized in a way that owes little to her predecessors. An evocative and idiosyncratic debut novel.” —Good Book Guide on Belshazzar's Daughter

“In Inspector Ikmen, Nadel has created a sympathetic sleuth. Supported by his handsome side-kick, intellectual father and plaintive wife, Ikmen should go far.” —Scotsman on Belshazzar's Daughter

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The Ottoman Cage

The Ottoman Cage

$12.99

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