Çetin Ikmen is a police commissioner in contemporary Istanbul. He is a very clever chain-smoking skinny man made cleverer by the clairvoyant abilities inherited from his Albanian witch mother. His assistant Suleyman is scion of an old Ottoman family, and other beautifully painted characters complete the cast of this fantastic series of novels. The complexities of today's Istanbul are always present: the fading Greek, Jewish and Armenian minorities, the stampeding urbanisation, the rich poor divide, the dirt and the incredible beauty of the city. The crimes are murder, drugs, prostitution and child abduction; the perpetrators are Bulgarian clergy, Russian mafiosi, Turkish pedophiles, and other exotics. Love it. Çetin Ikmen is as warmly recommended as Yashim.
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