Writing
Barbara Nadel has written thirteen 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 Armenian pathologist Arto Sarkissian. These have been translated into a number of languages, including Turkish, as well as being released as Audio books in English and German.
Her second crime series, set in West Ham in the East End of London during The Blitz, features undertaker Francis Hancock.
In January 2011 Quercus announced the signing of Ms Nadel to write a new crime series set in the modern-day East End, to be published starting Summer 2012 under the name B J Nadel, although the published book used Barbara Nadel.
Other published works include short stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine plus British magazines My Weekly and Woman's Own, and travel pieces for British newspapers The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent and US food magazine Saveur.
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