Land of the Blind (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 17)

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. Ancient feuds and new dangers bring death to the streets of Istanbul... Set against the Gezi Park uprising of 2013, Land of the Blind is the seventeenth crime thriller featuring Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehut Suleyman in Istanbul. A perfect read for fans of Jason Goodwin and Martin Walker. ''There''s no one quite like Nadel... Seamlessly weaving together so many diverse threads is the work of a master with her finger firmly on the city''s pulse... Gripping'' - Big Issue Istanbul In the ruins of the Constantinople hippodrome lies a body: a woman, clutching a piece of red stone. She''s recently given birth, but there''s no sign of the baby. Inspector Çetin Ikmen discovers she was Ariadne Savva, a Byzantine specialist on a crusade to protect the