The Janissary Tree
by:
Jason Goodwin (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571229246 (0571229247)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
Pages no: 332
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Turkish
Series: Yashim the Eunuch (#1)
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 ...
This was in the unread pile like forever and it wasn't worth waiting for. Setting the scene is one thing, but so much time is spent on details and surroundings that the plot gets bogged down and moves at a snail's pace. By the time it got to the unnecessarily convoluted end, I cared more about the b...
Janissary Tree A detective novel where the investigator is a Eunuch, Yashim, who is investigating a murder in the Harem and four young cadets in the new army who have replaced the Janissaries. When the Janissaries were disbanded they weren't unsatisfied by the situation. All clues point at their ...
workaday mp3I love historical mysteries and the setting here was very interesting.
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