The body of a teenage girl is discovered in a cistern deep below the city of Istanbul. For the Turkish police force's most talented officer, Inspector ??etin Ikmen, this is a difficult case. The girl was his daughter's friend & her attire, that of a nineteenth-century Ottoman, offers no easy explanation. With his promise of justice to the dead girl's mother still fresh on his lips, Ikmen is suddenly taken off the case & reassigned to the kidnapping of an ageing movie star's wife. The star is hiding something & so, Ikmen fears, are his superiors. A powerful secret exists in the labyrinthine city; one which those on either side of the law will do anything to prevent surfacing...