Harem: Inspiration for the Turkish Detective, BBC Two's Sensational New TV Series (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780747267201)

The body of a teenage girl is discovered in a cistern deep below the city of Istanbul. For the Turkish police force's most talented officer, Inspector Çetin Ikmen, this is a difficult case. The girl was his daughter's friend and her attire, that of a nineteenth-century Ottoman, offers no easy explanation.With his promise of justice to the dead girl's mother still fresh on his lips, Ikmen is suddenly taken off the case and reassigned to the kidnapping of an ageing movie star's wife. The star is hiding something and so, Ikmen fears, are his superiors. A powerful secret exists in the labyrinthine city; one which those on either side of the law will do anything to prevent surfacing...

Author: Barbara Nadel
ISBN-10: 0747267200
ISBN-13: 9780747267201
Publisher: Headline
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.03h x 4.50w x 1.03d