This book has all the right ingredients for a successful mystery debut, but...I am aware that Ms. Nadel frequently visits Turkey. One would have to assume that she has some special connection with the place. Even so it is impossible to take the uterly false peacuful and tolerant nature of the Turkish society. It is hard to imagine that in a country, where even the mention of horrific genocide on Armenians in 1912 can get you in jail, people of different religions live in harmony. It is very easy to be democratic and tolerant when there are almost no Orthodox Christians left in Turkey. Ms. Nadel has a flair for characters but the plot of her debut is so outlandish that this reader lost his patience multiple times.I'll be willing to try one more of her novels. Perhaps these were the pains of a writer novice.