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Dead of Night by Barbara Nadel

liberrydude's review against another edition

3.0

Ikmen goes to Detroit for a policing conference and gets involved with a 30 year old cold case of a drug dealer. Back in Istanbul, his assistant is finding love in the arms of another cop while monitoring the release of a serial rapist. Ikmen's exploits in Detroit seemed a little unbelievable but at the same time fascinating. Nadel introduces a group of mixed race people from Appalachia I'd never heard of-Melungeons-who think they could be descendants of shipwrecked Ottoman sailors. Ikmen's chance meeting on the street with an old Melungeon man who is the father of the murdered drug dealer starts a relationship which quickly moves to the present and a series of murders involving racism, greed, and corruption with the police force and city government.