The Snake Stone (Yashim the Ottoman Detective)

The Snake Stone (Yashim the Ottoman Detective)

by Jason Goodwin (Author)

Synopsis

Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefevre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death. The sequel to The Janissary Tree.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 0571229255
ISBN 13: 9780571229253
Book Overview: The Snake Stone is the sequel to Jason Goodwin's thrilling and acclaimed historical novel The Janissary Tree.

Media Reviews
'Everything you could want from a novel - a cracking story, beautifully written, with a wonderfully seductive and original detective in the figure of Yashim the Eunuch.' Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth
Author Bio
Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. The first five books-The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, An Evil Eye and The Baklava Club-have been published to international acclaim, alongside Yashim Cooks Istanbul, a cookbook of Ottoman Turkish recipes inspired by the series. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England.