The Janissary Tree

There are chases, dramatic escapes, episodes of cruelty, delicious food, glamorous sex, and an elegantly achieved solution to ali the mysteries. Intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly vvritten, TheJanissaryTree is a rare pleasure.' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL CRIME AWARD AHD THE OOSS FIRST ttOVEL AWARD A fabulously rich and entertaining novel of detec-tion and conspiracy in nineteenth-century istanbul.

Translated into thirty-one languages worldwide. One bloody night in 1836: a young concubine is strangled in the Sultan's harem, and a young cadet is butchered in the streets of istanbul. Yashim the eunuch has just ten days to uncover a plot - and prevent a killing - that could bring the Ottoman Empire to its knees.