Order of Inspector Ikmen Books

Order of Inspector Ikmen Books

Inspector Ikmen by Barbara Nadel

Inspector Ikmen is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British novelist Barbara Nadel. Inspector Cetin Ikmen is a police officer in Istanbul, Turkey.

Barbara Nadel began her Inspector Ikmen series in 1999 with the novel Belshazzar’s Daughter. The series is currently ongoing. The seventh novel in the series, Deadly Web, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2005. Below is a list of Barbara Nadel’s Inspector Ikmen books in order of when they were first published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Inspector Ikmen Books

Belshazzar’s Daughter

(1999)

A Chemical Prison/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

(2008)

Death by Design

(2010)

A Noble Killing

(2011)

Dead of Night

(2012)

Deadline

(2013)

Body Count

(2014)

Land of the Blind

(2015)

On the Bone

(2016)

The House of Four

(2017)

Incorruptible

(2018)

A Knife to the Heart

(2020)

Blood Business

(2020)

Forfeit

(2021)

Bride Price

(2022)

Double Illusion

(2023)

The Darkest Night

(2024)

Note: A Chemical Prison was also titled The Ottoman Cage.