The Bellini Card (Hardcover) Jason Goodwin

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar Award-winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating series Jason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth. Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his intelligent, gorgeous and evocative (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling. Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate

July 2022