This really isn't bad at all - the opening pages are not well written, and the heart sinks, but having stayed with it, I found the pages turning freely, if not un-put-down-ably: the tension is built effectively, and there is an interesting development of the relationship between the police chief ...
Detective Andreas Kaldis has fallen in disgrace and been dispatched to the island of Mykonos in the Aegean sea. At the same time a woman has disappeared and found in church grounds and it looks like she's been the victim of a sadistic ritual. The daughter of a prominent diplomat also disappears a...
Its official name is Thera, but Santorini, a contraction of Santa Irini from its Latin Empire days, is how it’s known to tourists worldwide. To romantics drawn to legend, it bears yet another name, one tied to a cataclysmic volcanic eruption some 3,600 years ago: Atlantis, the lost island. ...
But to Andreas this morning’s commute was as bad as ever. Perhaps he was only anxious to get back to his office. His unit was terrific, but he was the engine that drove the investigations, and things piled up whenever he was away, even for a few days. His phone rang. It wa...
and try what was “special on the menu for lunch,” amounting to enormous portions of sklavotyra—round cheese balls surrounded by fresh figs, sun dried tomatoes, and capers—deep fried meatball-shape keftedes made of tomatoes, and an omelet of local sausage and cheese. Tassos...
“It’s Yianni,” she said to seven men in jeans and work shirts sitting at a white linen-covered table in a room just beyond the entryway. “She means Athens Yianni,” said one of the men. “Of course she does,” said a white-haired man at the far end of ...
“Who?” “He said you knew him.” “Never heard of him.” “Gimme a minute,” said Maggie. Andreas picked up a pencil and began drumming the eraser end on his desktop. He’d barely slept last night, and not fo...
Why they believed what they heard no one knew. Perhaps they came looking for a fantasized Mister Right on an idyllic Greek island, or maybe just wanted to hear something, anything, to justify behavior unthinkable back home. No matter, whatever the reason, men sensed it and took advantage. For the...