Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Jason Goodwin:

The Snake Stone: A Novel, September 2008
Hardcover
The Janissary Tree, May 2007
Hardcover

THE SNAKE STONE: A NOVEL
By: Jason Goodwin

Picador
September 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0312428022
EAN: 9780312428020
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Fiction

Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman Empire

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 achaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confusion. Yashim Togalu is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. As the body count starts to rise, Yashim must uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, encountering along the way such vibrant characters as Lord Byron's doctor and the Sultan's West Indies–born mother, the Valide. With striking wit and irresistible flair, Jason Goodwin takes us into a world where the stakes are high, betrayal is death--and the pleasure to the reader is immense.

Media Buzz

Morning Edition - August 14, 2008