Barbara Nadel

Career

Many of her books are set in Turkey, others in London"s East End. Born in the East End of London, Barbara Nadel trained as an actress before becoming a writer Now writing full-time, she has previously worked as a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship"s Good Companion Service and as a mental health advocate for the mentally disordered in a psychiatric hospital.

She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in schools and colleges, and was the patron of The Acorn Group in Shrewsbury, a charity (now apparently closed following a cut in funding) caring for those in emotional and mental distress.

She has been a regular visitor to Turkey for more than twenty-five years. Her son is a published academic.

Achievements

• 2005 winner of the CWA Silver Dagger (for Deadly Web) 2006 winner of "Jury" magazine"s Flintyxan ("Flint Axe") award for Best Historical Crime Novel (for Dödlig rättvisa, Marianne Alstermark"s Swedish translation of Last Rights) 2008 winner of the London Borough of Redbridge Big Red Read Book of the Year for Ashes to Ashes 2010 winner of the London Borough of Redbridge Big Red Read Crime Fiction of the Year for Sure and Certain Death 2013 Derringer Finalist for short story Nain Rouge published in Ellery Queen"s Mystery Magazine.

Works

• Other Work

  • Writing Barbara Nadel has written seventeen books in her series about �etin Ikmen, a chain-smoking and hard-drinking detective on the Istanbul police force, and his colleagues Mehmet S�leyman, Balthazar Cohen and Armenian pathologist Arto Sarkissian. These have been translated into a number of languages, including Turkish, as well as being released as audiobooks 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.