Nick Zuliani Mysteries

by Ian Morson 2 books in this series

The Nick Zuliani mysteries follow a Venetian trader and adventurer who enters the service of Kublai Khan in the 1260s. Far from Venice, Nick uses commercial experience, languages, improvisation and deception to investigate crimes across the Mongol Empire.

The series combines murder investigation with travel through the Pax Mongolica. Court hierarchy, provincial government, religious encounter and the risks faced by foreign visitors provide the political framework for cases in which justice depends as much on survival and diplomacy as on identifying the culprit.

Reading order

Books in this series (2 books)

#1 – City of the Dead

Ian Morson

Crimea and the Mongol Empire, 1262. Venetian trader Nick Zuliani is rescued from poverty by Friar Alberoni, who hires him as bodyguard for a journey to the court of Kublai Khan at Xanadu. The assignment offers escape and profit, but it also carries him into unfamiliar…

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#2 – A Deadly Injustice

Ian Morson

Cathay, 1268. Nick Zuliani, a Venetian adventurer serving as Kublai Khan’s Investigator of Crimes, is sent from the imperial court to a remote town where Jianxu, a young woman, has confessed to poisoning Geng Biao and faces execution. The confession was obtained under torture, but overturning…

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