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    The Baklava Club

    Written by Jason Goodwin

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

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    In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and he's held captive in an unused farmhouse. Little do the kidnappers realise that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies. Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781471264078
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    The Baklava Club
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    Jason Goodwin

    JASON GOODWIN is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Investigator Yashim series. The first five books—The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, An Evil Eye, and The Baklava Club—have been published to international acclaim, alongside Yashim Cooks Istanbul, a cookbook of Ottoman Turkish recipes inspired by the series. 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.

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    • 4/5
      This was supposed to be the "Last" in the series...... Effendi Yashim (Investigator to the Pasha & Valide, Eunuch, & Orphan) turns out to have such a large & vociferous following that Jason Goodwin didn't "kill him off" after all!

      Istanbul 1842: Yashim's old friend, Polish Consulate Palewski, has become the center of interest of a group of young Italians (one with a beautiful Danish girlfriend) wanting to break away from the Pope.... In the meanwhile unbeknownst to most, Palewski has taken on a undercover assignment for the Pasha...... When Palewski is shot, Yashim takes a most genuine interest in the investigation of why, how & whom......

      In the mean time a young woman from exiled Russia (Siberia) has come to petition the Valide to help her father's cause.... liberating him from his exile. Them there is the Roman Priest, who spends most of his time in the archives of Istanbul searching for a much sought after Papal Decree and drinking Palewski's bourbon and generally being a pain.

      There is a kidnapping, the murder of one of the Pasha's clerks, the attacks on Palewski & Yashim, and the murder of the Dane...... No one is whom they seem to be, the Italians are members of a "liberation cell", the Russian is maybe not as helpless as she seems, the Pasha isn't as unaware as he seems, Palewski is much more courageous & true to his beliefs than ever before, and Yashim is as great of a cook as he has ever been.

      I am so happy that Yashim was not killed off. I am already grieving for the Mamur Zapt whose last book I read in June....... I never did guess what was going on, so the mystery was strong. As always, I loved Yashim's cooking and I have found a new manner of Pilaf...... Not only did the book hold my interest, I even liked most of the characters no matter how tragic their innocence.

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    • 3/5
      I love historical fiction that takes me back to a small slice of time in an area I know little about. Goodwin, an Ottoman Empire expert, provides an excellent tour guide in his main character Yashim. Although I felt the plot was weakest of any of the series, Goodwin made up for it in his variety of characters and descriptions of mid-19th century Istanbul.

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    • 2/5
      This was a very odd book. OK, I accept that it's the 5th in a series, so it might make more sense in a developing story over a number of books. The sex was completely unnecessary, and didn't add much to the story or the characters, it came a bit out of the blue. The detective figure is Yashim, a eunuch of the court of the Sultan's mother in Istanbul. The title refers to a group of 3 Italian exiles, who meet with the Polish ambassador Polevski and generally act like unbearable puppies. The background of the story is political, with Poland being subsumed by various empires and the Italian concern being the unification of Italy and the power of the pope. In the middle of this there are the ladies, the danish wife (mistress) of one of the Italians and Natasha, the daughter of Russian exile who has written to the Validee and has come to stay. It al gets somewhat confused, there is an attempted murder that turns into a kidnap and wounding, there is a murder and through it all Yashim tries to sort it out. Not exactly to discover the truth, or to solve the murder, more to make sure that Istanbul survives. It has some interesting elements, but it didn't seem to hang together.The politics were complicated and not at all resolved, but then, neither did I really care about them. A degree of the discovery happens off stage, as it were, by the various justices of the city. . I can't see myself coming back to this.