NEW REVIEWS ON EUROCRIME: THE SNAKE STONE
My review of the historical mystery The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin is posted on Euro Crime.
This book features Yashim the eunuch detective while among the other books reviewed this week, and also set in Turkey, is The Prophet Murders by Mehmet Murat Somer which has as the narrator possibly the world's first transvestite detective.
Definitely the mysterious east.
posted by Uriah Robinson at 11:57 AM
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The first book in Jason Goodwin's series, The Janissary Tree, has the only eunuch sex scene I've read in crime fiction, and a tastefully handled affair it is.
I allude to The Janissary Tree in a comment that I intend to post in the next half-hour or so.
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I was recommended The Janissary Tree by a retired friend and colleague. I keep meaning to read it, but I don't know whether to be intrigued or put off by Peter's comment above!
I feel a bit queasy thinking about this!
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