Dieser Autor schafft fesselnde Krimi-Thriller, die vor der Kulisse malerischer, aber unruhiger griechischer Orte spielen. Seine Erzählungen gehen über einfache Handlungsstränge hinaus und tauchen tief in bedeutende gesellschaftliche Probleme des modernen Griechenlands ein, während sie gleichzeitig die tiefen historischen Wurzeln des Landes anerkennen. Sein direkter und schonungsloser Stil bietet den Lesern einen authentischen Einblick in die von ihm erforschten Schauplätze und Themen. Sein unverwechselbarer Ansatz liegt darin, Geschichten zu erschaffen, die nicht nur spannend sind, sondern auch zum Nachdenken über die Komplexität der heutigen Gesellschaft anregen.
Kommissar Andreas Kaldis wird gegen seinen Willen von Athen auf die Insel Mykonos versetzt, wo er glaubt, dass es keine Verbrechen gibt. Doch als die Leiche einer rituell ermordeten Touristin gefunden wird und eine weitere verschwindet, beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um den Serienkiller zu stoppen.
The discovery of a murdered boy from a prominent Greek family in a dumpster leads Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis on a politically incorrect investigation through Athens' criminal underbelly. His quest for answers uncovers a web of jealousy and revenge, revealing deep-seated tensions between old money and new wealth. As he navigates the city's nightlife and elite society, Kaldis confronts dangerous truths that challenge his understanding of the case and the society he serves.
When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible involvement in the assassination of an undercover cop.But then Maggie and Yianni uncover a connection between their respective leads in the elder-killings on Ikaria and the DEA corruption case, and they realize that there are international intrigues far more dangerous at play than anyone had imagined.
The murder of a legendary nightclub owner who helped transform Mykonos from an impoverished Greek island into a wealthy, world-renown tourist paradise puts politically explosive secrets into play and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis into battle with a powerful, clandestine international force intent on doing whatever necessary to dominate the island.
Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the island's new police chief - the young, politically incorrect, former Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldis - starts finding bodies, bones and suspects almost everywhere he looks, he's forced to admit that the island paradise is harbouring a ritualistic serial killer. Mykonos's character is at stake, but political niceties no longer matter when another blonde vanishes. Andreas must delve into ancient myths and forgotten island hideaways as he races against a killer intent on claiming a new blonde victim - who is herself determined to out step him ...
When Athens journalist Nikoletta Elia disappears while on assignment on the island of Naxos, her editor calls on Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis to investigate. The reporter, assigned to report on the effects of rampant tourism on Naxos' culture and agrarian lifestyle, is approached by a fan who takes credit for several suspicious deaths she had written about in the past and suspected to be murders. The assassin claims to have changed his evil ways, but wants Nikoletta to write a series of articles about him and his myriad hits. Kaldis sends his deputy, Yianni, to investigate; then a body (not the journalist's) is found at the base of a cliff. Leads turn into more dead bodies--and finally, threats--before Kaldis finally solves the deadly puzzle.
St John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island's thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos's town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon to find the killer. Andreas's impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world's oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. But today this sacred refuge harbours modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church ... in a matter of days
Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis investigates the murder of a boy from a prominent family found in a dumpster in a rough Athens neighborhood. His politically incorrect quest for answers leads him into the depths of a complex and dangerous web of intrigue.