The Snake Stone

The return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the international bestseller and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel The Janissary Tree

Yashim the Eunuch is hired to investigate him, but then Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered, and it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself.Istanbul, 1838. Maximilien Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, arrives in the city determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure, and immediately rumours start circulating about what his true motives might be. Yashim the Eunuch is hired to investigate him, but then Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered, and it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Jason Goodwin's second Yashim mystery puts him at the forefront of historical crime fiction.