‘Bride Price’ by Barbara Nadel

Published by Headline,
12 May 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-4722-7354-3 (PB)

This is the 24th book in the Ikmen series of crime fiction.  Another fascinating adventure involving Cetin Ikmen set in the colourful, diverse and ancient city of Istanbul.  

Although Ikmen is now retired he takes a large role in crime detecting mainly through his friendships and involvements with old colleagues in the Police. 

In this latest book we are taken again into a world that tourists and maybe even some residents of Istanbul would not be aware.  The solving of the crime which Ikmen involves himself with begins with an apparent suicide and takes the reader into various venues such as a gypsy wedding, the jewellery business, and the world of home working seamstresses.  Behind all these intrigues there is a tale of major international Art theft. 

I was left at the end of the book  with impatience for the next book which hopefully will continue the story.  Barbara Nadel keeps up the high standard of writing that she has set herself and in this novel, she seems to have become even better!
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Reviewer: Toni Russell

Barbara Nadel was born in the East End of London. She rained as an actress, and used to work in mental health services. 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.

 

Toni Russell is a retired teacher who has lived in London all her life and loves the city.  She says, ‘I enjoy museums, galleries and the theatre but probably my favourite pastime is reading.  I found myself reading detective fiction almost for the first time during lockdown and have particularly enjoyed old fashioned detective fiction rather than the nordic noir variety.  I am a member of a book club at the local library and have previously attended literature classes at our local Adult Education Centre.  I am married with three children and five grandchildren