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Bride Price

Inspector Ikmen, Book 24

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Bride Price

By: Barbara Nadel
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweller's home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions?

As his colleagues begin their investigation, Suleyman is distracted by troubles of his own. His wedding to Gonca Serekoglu is days away, but when Gonca receives her bridal bedcover from a Roma haberdasher and discovers that it is covered in blood, she sees this as a curse on their marriage. Suleyman asks his old friend Cetin Ikmen to help him uncover the truth, but the task is not that simple....

Meanwhile, as the stories swirling around Muftugolu become increasingly sinister, the dead man's wife appears, laying claim to his valuables and Suleyman is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of smuggling and savagery....

©2022 Barbara Nadel (P)2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Marriage Crime

Critic Reviews

"Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen—'one of modern crime fiction's true heroes." (The Times)
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I'm halfway through listening to Mr Barrett narrate this book. He's a huge reason I chose to follow this series. But, I can't, for the life of me, understand why he keeps dropping the s in the pronoun "she". Almost nine times out of ten he starts the sentence with "he" rather than "she" which makes for confusing catchups further into the sentence.

Great read

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