Petrified - Barbara Nadel

Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that drives even the sanest of people to act a little strangely and, for Çetin Ikmen, this summer is no different…

An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a young man. In an ancient part of the Jewish quarter, two children are missing. Their father, an artist whose genius borders on insanity, only seems more driven in his work. And a raid on a Russian gangster yields nothing except the dead body of a girl he claims is his daughter. Could the connection to all cases lie in a macabre forgotten art?