I really like Barbara Nadel's Inspector Çetin Ikmen series, and have been reading it (like several other series) from the time I used to buy paperbacks while on business trips to the UK, since the series was hard/impossible to find in the US. The most recent title in the series is
Forfeit (2021), which is on sale right now at Kindle and Kobo US for $0.99. (This is one of those that I bought before doing the post, just to make sure I didn't miss out...)
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NJJ6PH8
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NJJ6PH8
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/for...n-mystery-23-1
Spoiler:
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GREED, LUST AND BETRAYAL LEAD TO MURDER in Barbara Nadel's twenty-third Ikmen mystery, as Ikmen and Süleyman work to uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives...
In the early hours of the morning, Turkish TV star Erol Gencer is found dead at his home on the outskirts of Istanbul. But he is not alone. Beside him lies a Syrian refugee whose stomach has been split open with a cheese knife. Did Gencer kill his guest before committing suicide, or are they victims of a sinister double murder?
The dead Syrian is soon identified as Wael Al Hussain, whose wife, Samira, is in prison for attempting to kill Gencer a year ago. At the time, no one believed Samira's story that Gencer's wife had planned the attack, but now Samira's sister begs Çetin Ikmen to re-examine her claim.
Meanwhile, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman is on leave with his teenage son, Patrick, who is visiting from Ireland, but when Detective Kerim Gürsel's transsexual ex-lover, Pembe, is also murdered, shortly after confessing that Wael Al Hussain had used her for sexual favours, Süleyman knows he must help Kerim solve this complex case.
Entering a world of the Syrian diaspora, where tales of mythical storytellers abound, Ikmen and Süleyman uncover a tragic tale of dark secrets and double lives where nothing is at it seems...
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