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My first question must be, why do you want no investigation? If
some malicious person has robbed you - as you believe - of your
precious sight, why do you not want that person caught, tried and
punished for their crime?
A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked
in an isolated churchyard - trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi,
just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a
government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble there's Hermes
Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always
pristine and whose methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must solve a
brutal crime, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor and
pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters' relationship - but how
can he solve a mystery that not even the victim wants to be solved?...
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ENVY, REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION IN THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT OF THE
MYSTERIES OF THE GREEK DETECTIVE SERIES< PRAISE FOR THE TAINT OF
MIDAS: 'More transported Agatha Christie here, this time to a Greek
island setting with modern land-grabbing by unscrupulous developers ...
It's good news for readers that there are five more sins to go, because
Diaktoros is a delight. Half Poirot, half deus ex machina ... a cracking
plot, colourful local characters and descriptions of the hot, dry
countryside so strong that you can almost see the heat haze and hear the
cicadas - the perfect read to curl up with as the nights draw in'
Guardian PRAISE FOR THE MESSENGER OF ATHENS: 'This powerfully
atmospheric mystery embraces Mediterranean passion, mythic meddling and
patriarchal persecution. First-time novelist Anne Zouroudi proves a
natural at the dark arts of writing Euro-crime' Independent 'This is a
fantastic tale of passion, corruption and murder on a remote Greek
island' Woman's Own 'Absorbing and beautifully written and reveals the
savage, superstitious reality behind the pretty facade that is all that
most of us know of any Greek island' Literary Review >
My first question must be, why do you want no investigation? If
some malicious person has robbed you - as you believe - of your
precious sight, why do you not want that person caught, tried and
punished for their crime?
A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked
in an isolated churchyard - trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi,
just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a
government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble there's Hermes
Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always
pristine and whose methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must solve a
brutal crime, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor and
pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters' relationship - but how
can he solve a mystery that not even the victim wants to be solved?...
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ENVY, REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION IN THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT OF THE
MYSTERIES OF THE GREEK DETECTIVE SERIES<
