Barbara Nadel - Belshazzar's Daughter (ePub Fiction)

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem; 1st edition (October 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933397497
ISBN-13: 978-1933397498

Release Date: October 15, 2006 | Series: Inspectr Ikmen (Book 1)
Tourist brochures present Instanbul as a glamorous, modern city, but the brochures don't make much mention of Balat, a decrepit neighborhood of narrow, twisting alleys and crumbling tenements. Until recently it was home to Leonid Meyer, a reclusive elderly Jew who, like many of his neighbors, came here long ago to escape one of Europe's various bloodbaths. But Meyer's refuge ultimately became his coffin, the carnage crowned with a gigantic swastika. A racit murder? Inspector Ikmen has his doubts, and begins tracking down the few people who might have known the old man, including a faded prostitute, a shadowy family of Russian emigres, a dispairing rabbi, and a high-strung young Englishman in the throes of erotic obsession. The first in a stunningly atmospheric new series from a writer who has deservedly been compared with Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon.