Jason Goodwin
Jason Goodwin is the author of four non-fiction books: The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea (Thomas Cook Award finalist); On Foot to the Golden Horn, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize in 1993, and Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire.
His first Istanbul mystery, The Janissary Tree, became an international bestseller and won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2007; translated into over 40 languages, the series continues with The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card and An Evil Eye. A fifth mystery will be published in the Summer.
Jason Goodwin lives in Dorset with his wife Kate and their four children.
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Books by Jason Goodwin
An Evil Eye
Jason Goodwin
When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet.
Years ago, when ...
The Snake Stone
Jason Goodwin
Istanbul, 1838. In his European palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II, architect of Ottoman reform, is dying and the city swirls with rumours and alarms.
The unexpected arrival of ...
The Bellini Card
Jason Goodwin
The third book in Jason Goodwin’s celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice.
Charged by the Sultan to find a ...
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin
A fabulously rich and entertaining novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century Istanbul. Translated into thirty-one languages worldwide.
One bloody night in 1836: a young concubine is strangled in the ...
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