Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest people a little crazy... An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a young man.In an ancient part of the Jewish quarter, two children are missing.Their father, an artist whose genius borders on insanity, only seems more driven in his work. And a raid on a Russian gangster yields nothing except the dead body of a girl he claims is his daughter.Could the connection to all cases lie in a macabre forgotten art?But Inspector Cetin Ikmen's worries aren't just work-related.His protégé, Suleyman, is going dangerously off the rails, threatening to compromise not just himself but months of painstaking investigation.Ikmen faces a complex case which threatens to rock the very fabric of Turkish society.