The Snake Stone, Jason Goodwin
The Snake Stone, Jason Goodwin
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The Snake Stone
A Novel

Author: Jason Goodwin

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2009

Synopsis

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 archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confusion. Yashim Togalu is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's mutilated body 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 listener is immense.

About Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. The first four books-The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, and An Evil Eye-have been published to international acclaim. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other award-winning nonfiction. He lives with his wife and children in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

"Yashim did not challenge the men who met him; or the women. With his kind face, gray eyes, dark curls barely touched, at forty, by the passage of the years, Yashim was a listener; a quiet questioner; and not entirely a man. Yashim was a eunuch." The city of Istanbul is nestled under a cloud of appre......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I really enjoyed The Janissary Tree, so I was very excited about the release of the follow-up mystery, The Snake Stone. But, sadly, I found it terribly disappointing. Goodwin clearly as a vast knowledge of the world of 19th-century Istanbul. In his first novel, he carefully balanced his knowledge wit......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

The Ottoman Empire feels like a great gap in my understanding of the history of the world, which I've tried to fix over the past decade. Jason Goodwin's Lords of the Horizon was one of non-fiction histories I read and I've enjoyed his move into fictionalizing the declining days of the Empire. Set in......more

Goodreads review by Kim

Ormstenens gåta av Jason Goodwin. Boken var lite rörig innan jag hade lärt mig alla namn och kommit in i historien. Miljöskildringarna fängslade och det kändes som om jag befann mig i Istanbul. När jag började lyssna på boken insåg jag att jag faktiskt hade läst en bok av den här författare vid ett......more

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