The Feast of Artemis (Mysteries of/Greek Detective 7)
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GUARDIAN
THE DOCTOR OF THESSALY
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?
‘If you don’t find yourself in Greece this summer, then Zouroudi’s latest mystery brings the Hellenic vibe tantalisingly close … Once again Hermes Diaktoros – a reassuringly earthbound investigator – finds himself dealing with a chorus of colourful locals’
INDEPENDENT
THE LADY OF SORROWS
A painter is found dead at sea off the coast of a remote Greek island. For our enigmatic detective Hermes Diaktoros, the plot can only thicken: the painter’s work, an icon of the Virgin long famed for its miraculous powers, has just been uncovered as a fake. But has the painter died of natural causes or by a wrathful hand? What secret is a dishonest gypsy keeping? And what haunts the ancient catacombs beneath the bishop’s house?
‘Anne Zouroudi writes beautifully – her books have all the sparkle and light of the island landscapes in which she sets them. The Lady of Sorrows, her latest, is a gorgeous treat’
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
THE WHISPERS OF NEMESIS
As snow falls on the tiny village of Vrisi, a coffin is unearthed and broken open and, to the astonishment of the mourners at the graveside, the remains inside have been transformed. News of the bizarre discovery spreads through the village and sets tongues wagging and heads shaking. Then, by the shrine of St Fanourios, a body is found, buried under the fallen snow. Rumours of witchcraft and the devil’s work abound, and when Hermes Diaktoros arrives in Vrisi he soon finds himself embroiled in the mysteries. But the truth may be far stranger than even he could possibly have imagined...
‘Diaktoros is a detective very much in the vein of Miss Marple ...Where Zouroudi scores is in her lovingly detailed descriptions of Greek island landscapes’
IRISH TIMES
THE BULL OF MITHROS
Drawn to the sun-drenched island of Mithros by the myth of its fabled bull, Hermes Diaktoros arrives on the day of a violent and troubling death. The mysterious circumstances surrounding it have echoes in Mithros’s past, in a brutal unsolved crime from years ago which, it seems, is neither forgotten, nor forgiven. Hermes sets out to solve a complex puzzle where shadowy secrets and unspoken loyalties are intertwined. And before long it’s clear that the fate of the mythical bull may be the least of the island’s mysteries...
‘Greece has never appeared more beautiful or damaged, and secrets lurk behind every ruin. Fortunately, Zouroudi’s masterfully compelling detective Hermes Diaktoros is on hand to sort the facts from the myths surrounding the violent death of a mysterious stranger’
DAILY MIRROR
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