- Barbara Nadel
Barbara Nadel is an English crime-writer. Many of her books are set in
Turkey .Background
Born in the
East End ofLondon , Barbara Nadel trained as an actress before becoming a writer. Now writing full-time, she has previously worked as a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship's Good Companion Service and as a mental health advocate for the mentally disordered in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in schools and colleges, and is currently the patron of a charity that cares for those in emotional and mental distress.She has been a regular visitor to Turkey for more than twenty years.
Writing
Barbara Nadel has written ten 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 Armenianpathologist Arto Sarkissian. These have been translated into a number of languages, including Turkish, as well as being released asAudio books in English and German.Her other crime novels, set in
West Ham in theEast End ofLondon duringThe Blitz , featureundertaker Francis Hancock.Awards
2005 winner of the CWA Silver Dagger (for
Deadly Web )Bibliography
Çetin İkmen
*"Belshazzar's Daughter (1999)"
*"A Chemical Prison (aka The Ottoman Cage) (2000)"
*"Arabesk (2001)"
*"Deep Waters (2002)"
*"Harem (2003)"
*"Petrified (2004)"
*"Deadly Web (2005)"
*"Dance With Death (2006)"
*"A Passion for Killing (2007)"
*"Pretty Dead Things (2007)"
*"River of the Dead (2009)"Francis Hancock
*"Last Rights (2005)"
*"After the Mourning (2006)"
*"Ashes to Ashes (2008)"External links
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/barbara-nadel/ Fantastic Fiction profile]
* [http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/barbaranadel.html Tangled Web profile]
* [http://www.meettheauthor.com/bookbites/73.html Meet the Author (video) 2004]
* [http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2005/gold.html CWA Gold and Silver Daggers 2005]
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