Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets.
Crime fiction aficionados know Istanbul as the beat of Cetin Ikmen, the shabby, middle-aged Turkish cop created by English novelist Barbara Nadel. A former actress who lives in the Pennines and was raised in London’s East End, her [...]
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Dec
It begins with a button and a prophecy. Tramping the Tennessee
backwoods with his dad, Randall Wilkes turns up an American Civil
War relic. His historian father, typically withholding and
impassive in the face of his young son’s enthusiasm, comes over all
doom-laden about the potential significance of the find.
“Whatever’s here,” he intones with patriarchal pomposity, “one day
the [...]
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Dec
Ignore the limp title of “Death of a Murderer” (Knopf, 240 pp., $23) %26#8212; it’s the only weak point in an otherwise mesmerizing literary mystery.
Rupert Thomson’s quietly devastating novel describes one night in the life of British policeman Billy Tyler, assigned to guard the body of a despised child murderer (dead of natural causes) before [...]
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