The Bellini Card
By Jason Goodwin
Faber £12.99, 306 pages
FT Bookshop price: £10.39

In Jason Goodwin’s third instalment of the Ottoman Detective series, the “eunuch investigator” Yashim travels to Venice to recover a lost Bellini painting. He has been dispatched by the Sultan of Turkey, and with the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish ambassador in Istanbul, he sets about his task with characteristic zeal.