{"product_id":"9780755378937","title":"Pretty Dead Things (Inspector Ikmen Mystery 10): A deadly crime thriller set in Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen peace and love turn into deadly conflict... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspector Ikmen and Inspector Sulleymen uncover the dark legacies of Istanbul's past in \u003ci\u003ePretty Dead Things, \u003c\/i\u003ethe tenth chilling thriller from the Inspector Ikmen series. Barbara Nadel will impress fans of Andrea Camilleri and Jason Goodwin. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Riveting... Nadel takes us far beneath the surface of the city's ancient streets... A heady and stunningly exciting take on the crime genre' - \u003ci\u003eLancashire Evening Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across the city when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in the sixties. According to her husband, Emine never really left behind the free love pleasures she discovered back then and he suspects she was visiting an old friend at the time of her disappearance. Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is called to a terrifying scene at the art deco Kamondo Stairs in the old banking district of Karakoy. The skeleton of a woman has been discovered in one of the large plant containers. Could these two bizarre incidents be linked?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers are saying about \u003ci\u003ePretty Dead Things\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A well planned novel with \u003cb\u003ea mixture of the politics and social history of Istanbul\u003c\/b\u003e as a background to a \u003cb\u003ethrilling mystery\u003c\/b\u003e starring Inspector Ikmen'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The \u003cb\u003eplot is one of her [Barbara Nadel's] best\u003c\/b\u003e and her characters [...] have become \u003cb\u003efully fleshed individuals\u003c\/b\u003e by this point in the series'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Book Publishing, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127451336944,"sku":"9780755378937","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780755378937_p0.jpg?v=1763640971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780755378937","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}