NEW YORK, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffrey Siger's Murder in Mykonos, Greece's best selling English-language book of the summer, has just been published in the United States. Murder in Mykonos has the makings of a classic Greek tragedy: a young woman, a reversal of fate, and a pile of bodies. But without the fates to explain away the crime, the pressure is on Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldis to uncover the truth.
That truth lies somewhere underneath a remote mountain church where the body and another unidentified pile of bones were found. But the media isn't making Kaldis' investigation any easier. When another young woman disappears, Kaldis must plunge into ancient myths and forgotten island places, before this zealous murderer claims another victim.
"I wanted to write a story that would allow me to describe in detail the way I see Mykonos, the real beauty, the beauty of its people and of the way of life here. Since writing about flowers, pelicans and picturesque tavernas was not exactly my style, I thought that the best way to awaken the interest of the reader was through the intrigue of a murder mystery."
Murder in Mykonos is a fast-paced mystery laced with local, historical, and mythical details that Library Journal praises as having captured "the rare beauty of the Greek islands in this series debut.... His sense of place recalls Donna Leon's Venetian series, but his portrayal of rape and murder is all his own." Written with the ease and expertise of a local, this debut mystery is sure to appeal to travel buffs and mystery lovers.
The completed but not yet published sequel, Assassins of Athens, anticipated much of the current turmoil in Siger's beloved Greece, where he has been compared to Greece's father of the detective mystery, Giannis Maris. Assassins of Athens will be published there this spring in a Greek-language version and released in English in the US early next year.
Jeffrey Siger, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, practiced law at a major Wall Street law firm and, while there, served as special Counsel to the citizens group responsible for reporting on New York City's prison conditions. 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 among the people, life, and politics of Mykonos, his adopted home of 25 years. When he's not in Greece, he enjoys his other home, a farm outside New York City.
