American writer Jeffrey Siger's debut novel, MURDER IN MYKONOS, has received widespread, critical acclaim as a "brilliant," "can't put down" mystery-thriller, giving "an insider's view of the island paradise of Mykonos," and skyrocketed to rank as the #1 best selling English-language book in Greece!
A young woman on holiday to Mykonos, the most famous of Greece’s Aegean Cycladic islands, simply disappears off the face of the earth. And no one notices. That is, until a body turns up on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. Then 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.
Teamed with the canny, nearly-retired local homicide chief, Andreas tries to find the killer before the media can destroy the island’s fabled reputation with a barrage of world-wide attention on a mystery that’s haunted Mykonos undetected for decades. Just when it seems things can’t get any worse, another young woman disappears and political niceties no longer matter. With the investigation now a rescue operation, Andreas finds himself plunging into ancient myths and forgotten island places, racing against a killer intent on claiming a new victim who is herself determined to outstep him.
Sort of a 'Mama Mia' setting for a 'No Country for Old Men' thriller.
Poisoned Pen Press published MURDER IN MYKONOS in the United States in January, 2009.
Aikaterini Lalaouni Editions of Athens released Greek- and English-language versions in Greece in Spring 2008. It was the first time a foreign work of fiction debuted there in both languages. In less than two months, MURDER IN MYKONOS was rated the #1 English language novel in all of Greece! Of the over 240,000 books in its system, Greece's largest chain of bookstores ranked MURDER IN MYKONOS as the #1 recommendation of its bookstores to English language readers AND the #1 preference of its customers for English language books!
The novelist Jeff Siger—American, famous New York lawyer, with many different academic degrees, was born in Pittsburgh—belongs to the tribe of true Mykonians, though not by birth, and having visited the island for the past 25 years eats Aghios Sostis with a spoon [he knows the island like the back of his hand]. His knowledge and understanding of the place, its history, and its people, gave birth to this book that debuted this summer in Greece and will be published in America in a few months. Murder in Mykonos is a classic detective story with elements of a thriller, masterfully written, with a captivating, intriguing plot, many unexpected reversals, crescendos, and vivid characters, set against an island background and a “blue sea and sky that exist nowhere else.”
Even if you are not a murder-mystery fanatic, you will adore this book.
[translation]
—MYKONOS MAGAZINE
