
ASSASSINS OF ATHENS, the much awaited sequel to Murder in Mykonos, is "international police procedural writing at its best" praises Booklist in a starred review, and "easily compare[s]...to The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons [with] fast-paced excitement and drama [that] is on the same level" writes Reader Views. It will be published in the US in January 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press.
As with Murder in Mykonos, Jeffrey Siger combines his unique perspective and insider-like knowledge of Greece to create a highly entertaining, yet thought provoking novel—for ASSASSINS OF ATHENS is a Greek tragedy of another sort:
When the body of a boy from one of Greece’s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens’ worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police’s Special Crimes Division is certain there’s a message in the murder. But who sent it and why? Andreas’ politically incorrect search for answers takes him deep into the sordid, criminal side of Athens nightlife and on to the glittering world of Athens society where age-old frictions between old money and new breed jealousy, murder, revenge, and revolutionaries. It is a journey amidst ruthless, powerful adversaries bringing Andreas face-to-face with old grudges, new emotions, ancient Athenian practices, and modern political realities once thought unimaginable.
The Greek-language version, Mystirio Stin Athina, was released in Greece by Aikaterini Lalaouni Editions (Athens) and immediately became a top ten best seller. ASSASSINS OF ATHENS (along with Murder in Mykonos) will be published in the UK and Commonwealth by Piatkus Books/Little Brown (London).
The
new “mystery’ of Jeffrey Siger.
The
new book by American writer and friend of Greece Jeffrey Siger, ”Mystery in
Athens,” was presented on a beautiful day before a crowded Ilias Lalaounis
Jewelry Museum.
The new police procedural novel is a sequel to
his previous best-seller, “Mystery in Mykonos.”
It is worth noting that the author presents his
books first in Greece and then in America. The book
will be published in America in January 2010 by the publishing house
Poisoned Pen Press under the title “Assassins of Athens.” [Transalation]
—PARESKEVI MAGAZINE
