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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May
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Mar
To most of us, spring means flowers blooming, birds singing and gardens growing. The calendar definition of spring, however, is simply the mid point between winter and summer, one of two days of the year when day and night are equal in length. (The first day of autumn is the other.)
Scott Shalaway is a biologist [...]
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Feb
At 5 a.m. Thursday, the thermometer on the porch registered 3 degrees F. A fresh blanket of snow covered the ground; it crunched under my boots as I enjoyed a brief, brisk pre-dawn walk in the woods. The moon, which had been fully eclipsed by the Earth just hours earlier, had wandered across to the [...]
3
Feb
Over the last few weeks, temperatures have plunged into the single digits on more than a half dozen mornings. It’s enough to make a morning low of 15 degrees feel downright balmy.
I deal with extreme cold by dialing up the thermostat and staying indoors as much as possible. Animals, on the other hand, deal with [...]
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