Belshazzar's Daughter ~ Paperback ~ Barbara Nadel

Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man's blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is quick to eschew the obvious conclusion that this is a racist attack. The evidence leads Ikmen and his young lieutenant, Suleyman, to two people: Robert Cornelius, a teacher observed outside Meyer's flat shortly after the murder, and a retired businessman, Reinhold Smits, known to have had Nazi sympathies. But another link connects these two: a ninety-year-old Russian emigre, Maria Gulcu, a widow who thinks she possesses a secret worth killing for...Author BiographyBarbara Nadel is a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and as such has great deal of knowledge of the mentally disordered. Born in the East End of London, she trained as an actress and regularly visits her family in Turkey.