Assassins Of Athens: Number 2 in series
By (Author) Jeffrey Siger
Little, Brown Book Group
Piatkus Books
1st February 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
352
Width 161mm, Height 201mm, Spine 24mm
284g
When the body of a boy from one of Greece s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens worst neighbourhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis - now head of the Special Crimes Division - is certain there s a message in the murders. But who sent it - and why
Andreas search for answers takes him deep into the sordid, criminal side of Athens nightlife and on to the glittering society world, where age-old frictions between old and new money breed jealousy, murder, revenge, revolutionaries and dangerous, if not deadly, truths...Another fast, page-turning, police procedural, from Jeffrey Siger . . . This well plotted story just speeds along and captures very vividly the Greek way of life when we can just imagine how difficult it must be to find the time to coolly think and identify the facts and other leads when it's so hot and humid that it is sometimes hard to breathe. Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is a superb creation - Eurocrime
This is international police procedural writing at its best and should be recommended, in particular, to readers who enjoy Leighton Gage's Brazilian police stories (Buried Strangers, 2009) or Hakan Nesser's Swedish inspector Van Veeteren (Borkmann's Point, 2006) - Jessica Moyer, Booklist onlineSpeedboat paced . . .audacious . . . suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece - Publishers WeeklyMr. Siger is one of those rare writers whose finger is always on the pulse of modern day upheavals. He is never afraid to tackle and expose uncomfortable subjects - subjects most writers avoid...An authoritative and compelling voice, Mr. Siger is a master storyteller - New York Journal of BooksThoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales - The New York TimesThe author, a longtime resident of Mykonos, vividly captures this unfamiliar terrain's people and culture. Mystery fans who like their police procedurals in exotic locales will welcome this one - Library Journal reviewJeffrey Siger, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, practiced law at a major Wall Street law firm. He left Wall Street to establish his own New York City law firm and continued as one of its name partners. Now he lives and writes full time in Mykonos, his adopted home of 25 years.