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The Wooden Library

Inspector Ikmen, Book 27

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The Wooden Library

By: Barbara Nadel
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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The twenty-seventh mystery featuring Çetin İkmen and Mehmet Süleyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective, available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Inspector Mehmet Süleyman is on holiday in Romania when his distant cousin calls. Nurettin Süleyman has bought the Wooden Library, an ancient building in Istanbul once owned by their ancestor. He needs help cataloguing its priceless contents and who better for the job than Mehmet's old friend Çetin İkmen? As İkmen sets to work, he detects a terrible smell pervading the library that leads to the discovery of a rotting corpse. The dead body is that of Senol Ulusoy, the man who sold Nurettin the library . . .

A long-running feud between the two families comes to light, as does the bitter rivalry between the three Ulusoy brothers, fuelled by their father's cruel manipulation. Then pathologist Arto Sarkissian makes a shocking discovery that turns this case on its head, and Süleyman's detective team must dig deep to reveal a truth that is rooted in the past as well as the present . . .

©2025 Barbara Nadel (P)2025 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedurals

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I loved it all. Excellent story, brilliantly narrated. Can’t wait for the next Ikmen story

The voice of Sean Barrett

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Another wonderfully narrated book by Sean Barrett, he brings the characters to life and the story line was had me gripped from the start.
Cannot recommend more highly. Cannot wait for book 27!

Istanbul comes alive in these books. I have read all 26 books and like revisiting old friends

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