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Barbara Nadel (Author)
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Publication Date: 11 Jun 2009
The new, chilling psycho-mystery from the highly-acclaimed and award-winning author Barbara Nadel.

Convicted murderer and drug baron Yusuf Kaya has escaped from Istanbul prison. He appears to have had inside help. Ikmen is called to investigate Kaya's contacts in the city, while Inspector Suleyman heads to Kaya's home town of Mardin, a dangerous city in the south east of Turkey. As Ikmen delves deeper into Kaya's past, the body count continues to rise. It's not long before the two Inspectors are caught up in a terrifying web of arms and drug running, terrorism, blackmail and murder...

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Headline (11 Jun 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 075533566X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755335664
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 382,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Barbara Nadel trained as an actress but is now a full-time writer. She has worked as a public relations officer for Rethink Severe Mental Illness's Good Companion Service, and prior to that was a mental health advocate in a psychiatric hospital. Born in the East End of London, she now lives in Lancashire.
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2.0 out of 5 stars River of the dead 8 Aug 2009
By Angela H
Format:Paperback
Having read all of the authors previous books set in Instanbul, I was really looking forward to this one. I found it very disappointing, I felt it was too ambitious, and the plot quite unconvincing & contrived. It lacked rigour, intoducing too many disparate elements to cover in any depth. The introduction of Inspector Ikmen's prodigal son, was very far fetched. I apologise to those of you, whom like myself are Nadel fans, but I felt so disappointed after finishing the book, I wanted to share my views.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars River of the Dead 20 July 2009
By Ms. C. Degruchy
Format:Paperback
Barbara Nadel's novels about the Istanbul detective, Ikmen, just get better and better each time. I would thoroughly recommend this series to anyone who either enjoys a good detective novel or to anyone who knows Turkey. The author has a great insight and understanding of Turkey and Turkish culture.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars In search of a writer and editor 2 Dec 2012
By Borritt
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The plot moves along swiftly enough; but it's confusing when switches in the scene of action (between Istanbul and South-East Turkey) happen within chapters rather than at the ends. For me, confidence in the novel was undermined by some awful writing: - a corpse (page 275) can hardly be sent down the Tigris from Iraq to Turkey when this river flows the other way. On page 178 it's clear the author thinks "fortuitous" means something similar to "fortunate". Using "totally and utterly"(page 210) more than once in one book takes cliche to a new level. The word which follows "neither" (page 269) in English is not "or". To say the suspect was interviewed by "myself and Suleyman" is faulty (there are many cases of "myself" used instead of "me" or "I", similarly of "himself", "yourself",etc.). Clauses in English should be separated by at least a comma. This is not just nit-picking: it can send the reader on the wrong track. When the use of "actually" and "actual" reaches double figures in one book, it's time, actually, to reflect on its effectiveness. In European English we say "The river Tigris": it's North Americans who say "The Tigris river" (Would New Yorkers refer to the river East any more than Londoners would talk of the Thames river?) To relentlessly split infinitives is to seriously test the reader's willingness to happily tolerate what admittedly has become commonplace and usually O.K. In real life very few people put the other person's name into their conversation when, John, we are just talking to one another. In this book, Jim, it's very common. Yes, John, I noticed that. Also, lots of sentences are ended, Jim, by the interlocutor.......Like this, with dots leading to.....? Yes, exactly! You mean......Yes, that's what I mean, Jim. So you think it's.....Yes, it's very clunky. The author has a curious application of "upon" (again, many times), as in "he put the gun upon the table". Characters such as the crippled hooded dwarf are pulled fortuitously upstream through the rapids and the crocodiles are not there because actually they belong in another grammatical clause. Nobel prize or GCSE grade "D"? Only yourself can decide. The final twenty pages are quite funny; but not intentionally so.
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