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Nov 13, 2017
Judy
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This mystery set in Istanbul has a powerful start, but the plot becomes increasingly far-fetched, with a ludicrous final twist. There are some over-the-top sex scenes thrown in and I found some of these offensive, especially those involving the main female character, Natalia. This author has a very readable writing style and her detective, Cetin Ikmen, is an interesting character, but it's not enough to save the book - I'm not quite sure why I read to the end and I won't be going on with the ser
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Recommending this one with a caution. I'm recommending as it is a series (I think there are around twenty books now) following an intriguing set of detectives in Istanbul, Turkey, and I haven't found many other series in English with a contemporary setting such as this. I found the details of modern Turkish life interesting and the characters engaging and the storyline was good. Some of this author's descriptions and language use, however, made me wince. (The storyline includes Nazi collaboratio
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Aug 09, 2016
Terri
marked it as around-the-world
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