The second book in the Inspector Ikmen Series, with fascinating, disturbing echoes of Istanbul’s tragic relationship with its Armenian population circa World War I.

A beautiful young man has been found dead in one of the city’s neighborhoods. It’s sad, perhaps tragic, but it should also be a simple case: There are signs of drug abuse, rumors of prostitution, and a local family has reported a missing son.

Unfortunately, this is Istanbul, where few things are as simple as they appear, and the past has a way of intruding on the present. To unravel the riddle, the brandy-loving Inspector Ikmen will have to grapple not only with the residue of a century-old genocide, but also with an even older legacy that stretches back to the heyday of the Ottoman Empire.

“Even better than Nadel’s extraordinary first novel, Belshazzar’s Daughter”

– Evening Standard (UK)