Barbara Nadel

Barbara Nadel English crime-writer. Many of her books are set in Turkey, others in London's East End Nadel has written 21 books in her series about Çetin İkmen, a chain-smoking and hard-drinking detective on the Istanbul police force, and his colleagues Mehmet Süleyman, Balthazar Cohen, and Armenian pathologist Arto Sarkissian. These have been translated into a number of languages, including Turkish, and have been released as audiobooks in English and German. Her second crime series, set in West Ham in the East End of London, during The Blitz, features undertaker Francis Hancock.