Assassins Of Athens: Number 2 in series

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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...

Jeffrey 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.

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 online Speedboat paced . . .audacious . . . suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece - Publishers Weekly Mr. 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 Books Thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales - The New York Times The 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 review