The Janissary tree / Goodwin, Jason

In 1836, eunuch sleuth Yashim investigates a series of killings in the sultan's court, honing in on the Janissaries, the marginalized former imperial guards who have become ruthless mercenaries and may have committed the murders in an attempt to regain power.

Yashim Togalu, nineteenth-century eunuch and imperial investigator, inquires into a wave of murders in Istanbul, Turkey, and uncovers the revival of the Janissaries, the Ottoman military force abolished ten years earlier, who are planning to overthrow the government.