Reviews

Dance with Death by Barbara Nadel

liz246810's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

krobart's review against another edition

3.0

Barbara Nadel’s Turkish mystery novels are interesting because they usually involve one of the many minorities of Istanbul. In Dance with Death, though, the action takes place in the fascinating region of Cappodocia rather than in Istanbul. Dance with Death is full of the color of that mysterious region, and İkmen and Süleyman are sympathetic and interesting characters.

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pathphinder's review against another edition

1.0

One of the worst books I have seen. Google translate could do a better job than the editors and the writer combined... Nobody address each other by "Hanım", who "keeps" Ramazan?.. etc. If the writing was done properly, there would be no need for the vocabulary at the end maybe... Of course the A-Typical foreign one-sided views of the country is a must have just as in so many other books... Just unbearable...

liberrydude's review against another edition

3.0

Don't know how the title fits this story. Ikmen goes on vacation sort of, if a chain smoking type A personality can ever have a vacation. This book resumes where previous books left off with Ikmen's flirting affair with an English tourist some twenty years ago. Back in Istanbul Suleiyman is dealing with a pervert who has escalated to murder and strings are being pulled to inhibit him from investigating. Real world events are injected into the story and tragedy intrudes on the Ikmen family. Ikmen deals with an attempt on his life and is in the thick of it back in the rural countryside of the dervishes as he in the habit of Agatha Christie confronts/accuses a whole village of murderers. Only three more left in this series.