Jason Goodwin

Investigator Yashim

1 - The Janissary Tree (May-2006)
2 - The Snake Stone (Jul-2007)
3 - The Bellini Card (Mar-2009)
4 - An Evil Eye (Apr-2011)
5 - The Baklava Club (Jun-2014)

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  Lords of the Horizons
  

  • Dec-2002
  • / General Fiction
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  “An elegantly written, thoroughly entertaining work of popular history” examining the Ottoman Empire and its legacy (Kirkus Reviews).For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it adv...

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  The Janissary Tree
  

  • May-2006
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Investigator Yashim - 1
  

  It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent c...

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  The Snake Stone
  

  • Jul-2007
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Investigator Yashim - 2
  

  DETECTIVE. POLYGLOT. CHEF. EUNUCH. INVESTIGATOR YASHIM RETURNS IN THIS EVOCATIVE SERIES. Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French arch...

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  The Bellini Card
  

  • Mar-2009
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Investigator Yashim - 3
  

  ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean...

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  An Evil Eye
  

  • Apr-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Investigator Yashim - 4
  

  It takes a writer of prodigious talents to conjure the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire in all its majesty. In three previous novels, Jason Goodwin has taken us on stylish, suspenseful, and vibrant excursions into its exotic territory. Now, in An Evil...

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  Cooking with Yashim
  

  • May-2011
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Time for Tea
  

  • Dec-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  Jason Goodwin's grandmothers spent their lives in China and India, daily observing the imperial custom of afternoon tea. Inspired by their memories, the author set off to explore the disappearing relics of their age - an exploration that reaches back...

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  The Baklava Club
  

  • Jun-2014
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Investigator Yashim - 5
  

  Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award-winning series In four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Is...

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  Jason's November
  

  • Apr-2020
  • / Christian
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  In this short life, we all need someone to save. The story written on these pages cannot be untold. Once you have a glimpse of someone’s life, it becomes a part of you, for the rest of yours.  As long as Jason can remember, he’s had terrible...

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Award-Winning Books by Jason Goodwin

The Janissary Tree
2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel