Reviews for Dance with Death (Inspector Ikmen Series #8)

The average rating for Dance with Death (Inspector Ikmen Series #8) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-19 00:00:00 Steven Sullender My goodness they get through some cigarettes in the telling of this tale. I've never been to Turkey, but it felt like everyone there smokes away like chimneys. Turkey has been a curiosity to me, and having read this, I still want to go even more. It's set in two places, with two cases running through the story. There's Istanbul, where the books are usually set, I believe, with one of Inspector Ikmen's colleagues investigating a number of homophobic attacks. This is a more minor mystery and the solution of it isn't so exciting. In the meantime Ikmen has been called out to a mountainous, inland region called Cappadocia, which I would love to visit now. Not because there was a murder there, but the wierd geological environment, with these strange caves and "fairy chimneys" sounds fascinating and something to see. Ikmen travels out there and stays with his cousin and her psycho cat Kismet whilst he looks into a mystery involving a mummified body that was discovered in one of the more remote caves. He had hoped it would be the solution to a long personal mystery, but instead it turns out to be a young local woman who disappeared twenty years ago. There are feuding families in the village who blame each other for her disappearance, and the discovery of her corpse brings the feuds all back up to the surface again. The atmosphere, description of Turkish life and some of the places and landscapes is fascinating, even putting aside the murder mystery side of things. I will have to look out for more of her books.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-02 00:00:00 Paul Rasband Enjoyed reading this in anticipation of a trip to Turkey!