* Gunpowder Green is part of Laura Childs's Tea Shop Mystery series, in which each installment is named for a particular kind of tea.
* Gunpowder Tea by Margaret Brownley is a historical / Western romance-plus-mystery.
* The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin is part travelogue, part tea history.
* Gunpowder by Devina Seth, Harneet Baweja and Nirmal Save is an Indian cookbook.
* Gunpowder Valentine by Paul Perry and Gunpowder Summers by Richard Nester are collections of poetry.
The cover of my edition, and the blurb on the cover do not do the book any favors. When I picked it up at the library, I was expecting something pretty silly.
It's a good mystery in an unusual setting (Istanbul in the 1830s), with clever twists and turns and occasional flashes of brilliance in the writing. Perhaps a few too many twists, in truth, but on the whole, well worth the read.
I'm not completely familiar with Turkey or the Ottoman Empire or books about one of them. Still, I picked this book at a bookshop, and liked the blurb. I didn't really know what to expect though...
But I thought it was an interesting book, I don't know how accurate the book was exactly in the way it described it, but I feel like I've found out several new things. Something I always liked. Set back in the 19th century, it of course it slightly different from the thrillers that are most common, but I really liked this for a change. Still planning on reading the second book as will, but still so many other books to read, so it is possible it will take some more time...
Note: I read a Dutch translation of this book.
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