Publisher's Synopsis
When jeweller Fahrettin Müftüoglu is found dead in his apartment, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweller's home, Inspector Mehmet Süleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions? As his colleagues begin their investigation, Süleymanis distracted by troubles of his own. His wedding is days away, but when his fiancée's bridal bedcover arrives covered in blood, she sees this as a curse on their marriage. Süleyman asks his old friend Çetin Ikmen to help him uncover the truth. Meanwhile, as the stories swirling around Müftüoglu become increasingly sinister, the dead man's wife appears, laying claim to his valuables, and Süleyman is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of smuggling and savagery...
