Barbara Nadel Books in Order

Leonid Meyer is murdered in Istanbul’s Jewish quarter with a swastika painted on the wall in his blood. Inspector Ikmen refuses the easy explanation and follows the case into Nazi sympathies, buried secrets, and an old woman who knows more than she says.

A young man is found dead in a flat where no one remembers seeing him arrive or leave. As Ikmen and pathologist Arto Sarkissian investigate, the case reveals cruel captivity, hidden identity, and old unease inside Istanbul’s communities.

The wife of a famous Istanbul singer is dead and his baby daughter is missing. Newly promoted Inspector Süleyman must work through the gaudy, dangerous world of Arabesk music to find out what really happened.

A near-decapitated Albanian man is found by the Bosphorus, and the evidence points toward a blood feud between rival families. Ikmen’s own Albanian ties help him enter a closed world where violence demands more violence.

A teenage girl dressed like an Ottoman princess is found dead in an ancient cistern beneath Istanbul, and she was a friend of Ikmen’s daughter. Before he can stay with the case, he is pushed toward a kidnapping that hides an even bigger secret.

In a sweltering Istanbul summer, an elderly woman is found with the perfectly preserved body of a young man. Missing children, a dead gangster’s daughter, and a forgotten macabre art form push Ikmen toward one of his strangest cases.

A teenage girl and a young boy appear to have died in bizarre acts of self-harm, but the pattern feels too dark and too deliberate. Ikmen and Süleyman follow the clues into goth clubs, internet obsession, and a frightening underworld.

During the Blitz, Francis Hancock sees a man screaming that he has been stabbed, though there is no wound to prove it. Two days later the same body turns up at his funeral parlour, and Francis cannot let the mystery go.

A murdered young gypsy girl in Epping Forest draws Francis Hancock into a wartime world of travellers, deserters, spies, and rumor. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that her death is tied to a much larger conspiracy.

A woman’s body is found in a Cappadocia cave twenty years after she was shot and left to vanish into folklore. Ikmen must untangle lies, village legend, and bitter family tension to learn what really happened to her.

A man stabbed in a hotel room may be the latest victim of a killer targeting gay men, but someone has already cleaned the body. At the same time, a murdered carpet dealer points Ikmen and Süleyman toward greed, obsession, and madness.

When the wife of an Istanbul style guru disappears, Ikmen follows her trail into the bright wreckage of her earlier life. Meanwhile Süleyman finds a woman’s skeleton hidden in plain sight, and the two puzzles begin to converge.

During the great incendiary raid of 29 December 1940, a girl vanishes while sheltering in St Paul’s Cathedral. When murders follow, undertaker Francis Hancock must fight fear, chaos, and his own war memories to uncover the truth.

Escaped drug baron Yusuf Kaya leaves a trail of blood behind him, sending Ikmen through Istanbul and Süleyman to Mardin in the southeast. Their pursuit opens onto a brutal web of arms, drugs, terrorism, blackmail, and murder.

Francis Hancock finds a mutilated woman in a derelict East London house, and the killings do not stop there. As panic spreads and people whisper about another Jack the Ripper, the case turns painfully personal for his family.

A raid on a counterfeit goods factory ends in an explosion when a young man detonates the bombs strapped to his chest. The evidence points toward a planned attack on London, and Ikmen is caught in a dangerous cross-border investigation.

A young woman appears to have died in an honor killing, but the case grows stranger the more Ikmen and Süleyman learn. Missing lovers, gangster links, and crushing social pressure all feed into a brutal and tragic mystery.

When PI Lee Arnold hires Mumtaz Hakim, their first big client is Maria Peters, a former stand-up comic who thinks she is being stalked. What looks like paranoia soon opens onto manipulation, fraud, and real danger in East London.

Ikmen and Süleyman travel to Detroit for a policing conference and expect a routine trip. Instead, an elderly man asks them to reopen his son’s old murder case, pulling them toward corruption and violence on both sides of the Atlantic.

Nasreen should be settling into a new home and preparing for her baby, not fearing the secrets around her marriage. When a homeless veteran she knows turns up dead, she turns to Hakim and Arnold and sets off a case with explosive consequences.

A murder mystery evening at Istanbul’s Pera Palas Hotel turns horribly real, and Inspector Ikmen is drawn into a deadly game. The glamorous setting hides fear, hatred, and links to a past he would rather leave alone.

A half-decapitated corpse in Tarlabaşı draws Ikmen and Süleyman into one of their bleakest investigations. As the killings multiply over the following months, they begin to suspect Istanbul may be facing a relentless serial killer.

Mumtaz Hakim is approached by an Egyptian woman who insists her husband is innocent of terrorism charges. Going undercover, Mumtaz soon realizes the story is far more dangerous than it first seemed, and a hidden tunnel may become a trap.

When a senior policeman’s son is kidnapped, Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim are pulled into a secretive, high-pressure case. Their search crosses East End communities, old gang ties, and the uneasy line between money, power, and desperation.

A woman who has recently given birth is found dead in the old Hippodrome, clutching a piece of red stone, and her baby is missing. As protests shake Istanbul, Ikmen and Süleyman uncover a case tangled with development, history, and loss.

A man collapses in Beyoğlu and appears to have died naturally, until the autopsy reveals that his last meal was human flesh. Ikmen and Süleyman enter a world of elites, squatters, and culinary extremity to find the victim behind the horror.

Lee Arnold is asked to trace a young man believed to have gone to Syria after embracing radical Islam. With Mumtaz Hakim’s help, the search leads into online recruitment, gangland shadows, and a threat that feels painfully close to home.

Four elderly siblings are found murdered in a crumbling Istanbul mansion, while other killings across the city seem random. Ikmen and Süleyman have to dig through family history, superstition, and old grudges to find what connects them.

Dying Irving Levy wants to trace the sister who vanished at a fairground in the 1960s before he decides who should inherit his estate. Hakim and Arnold follow the case into Barking Park Fair and then much deeper into postwar secrets.

A young woman called a miracle survivor and messenger of the Virgin Mary is found stabbed and hidden among flowers. Inspector Ikmen must sort through religious tension, public myth, and the dangerous secrets inside her family.

When a historian examines a derelict Bosphorus villa, she finds a Ouija board tied to a girl’s long-ago death. Retired inspector Çetin Ikmen is drawn into the cold case, where folklore, grief, and murder are still tangled together.

John Saunders vanished in the Woolwich Foot Tunnel in 1976 and returns more than forty years later, alive and with an American accent. The DNA says he is real, but his story does not, and Hakim and Arnold are hired to find out why.

Two brothers open their mother’s grave and find her body missing, replaced by a fresh corpse with its heart removed. While Süleyman investigates the murder, retired Ikmen searches for a missing actress and fears both cases lead to organ harvesting.

A TV star and a Syrian refugee are found dead together in Istanbul, but the scene raises more questions than answers. As Ikmen and Süleyman dig deeper, they uncover double lives, diaspora tensions, and a trail of betrayal.

When a jeweller dies in Vefa, the scene looks like suicide until Inspector Mehmet Süleyman finds a hoard of priceless relics and stranger clues still. As his own wedding draws near, the case pulls him into smuggling, superstition, and violence.

In December 2019, two boys stumble into something disturbing after meeting a blood-smeared stranger. Mumtaz Hakim and Lee Arnold follow the trail beneath St Paul’s and into a grim case involving an old man and a newborn baby.

When the son of an Istanbul gang leader is arrested for killing his Roma lover, the evidence looks clear. But Süleyman and Ikmen uncover psychosis, corruption, and a far darker game behind the crime.

A drowned newborn in the Golden Horn points toward a feared Mafia boss, while a young man vanishes during a winter festival magic trick. As the two mysteries close in on each other, Süleyman and Ikmen uncover betrayal, corruption, and bloodline obsession.

Desecrated graves in East Ham lead to a shocking find, a clay golem hidden where human remains should be. When it is stolen from police storage, Arnold and Hakim follow the trail into wartime Prague and a jewel worth killing for.

An ancient library in Istanbul seems like an odd place for murder until a terrible smell leads Ikmen to a rotting corpse. The dead man’s sale of the building opens onto a family feud, cruel inheritance, and old rivalries.

Two women die in very different parts of Istanbul, one from a snakebite in Kuştepe and one in what looks like a terror attack. Ikmen and Süleyman soon realize the cases are linked, and more blood will follow if they miss the truth.