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The Doctor of Thessaly - Mysteries of the Greek Detective
Author: Anne Zouroudi

The Doctor of Thessaly is the third in Anne Zouroudi?s unique series of award-winning mysteries, where mythology meets murder in the timeless landscapes of almost-contemporary Greece. Anne Zouroudi?s tales of the Greek Detective are ?Gripping and tense, with an atmosphere which holds you in thrall?, says Susan Hill. ?Essentially gloriously sunny... more » escapism, the perfect holiday read? (Daily Telegraph). Readers of Andrea Camilleri, Donna Leon, Alexander McCall-Smith and Neil Gaiman's American Gods will love the mysterious, enigmatic Greek detective Hermes Diaktoros, ?half Poirot, half deus ex machina? (Guardian). A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach. A local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard. Trouble arrives at a bad time to the backwater village of Morfi, just as the community is making headlines with a visit from a high-ranking government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble, there's Hermes Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine and whose investigative methods are always unorthodox. Hermes must investigate a brutal crime, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor and his cronies, and try to settle the troubled waters of two sisters' relationship. But how can he unravel a mystery that not even the victim wants solved? Set against a radiant Mediterranean backdrop, THE DOCTOR OF THESSALY is a spellbinding mystery about the dark consequences of envy. Anne Zouroudi is a past winner of the Coventry Book Award and has been shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards and the Desmond Elliott Prize. Reviews Anne Zouroudi?s Greek mystery is full of ?all the sparkle and light of the island landscapes in which she sets them . . . Lovely, delicious prose and plot ? as tasty as one of those irresistible honey-soaked Greek confections? - Alexander McCall Smith ?Gripping and tense with an atmosphere which holds you in thrall? - Susan Hill ?Firmly in the delicious subgenre of crime-cum-gastroporn pioneered by Andrea Camilleri . . . Essentially gloriously sunny escapism, the perfect holiday read? - Daily Telegraph ?Riveting? - Wall Street Journal ?This powerfully atmospheric mystery embraces Mediterranean passion, mythic meddling and patriarchal persecution. Anne Zouroudi proves a natural at the dark arts of writing Euro-crime? - Independent ?Not only charming and engrossing stories, but also shrewd and often bleak portraits of individual weakness and social fragility . . . rich in wonderfully compressed scenes, any one of which might have become a short story. But this is a mystery novel, and Zouroudi creates suspense as elegantly as she does atmosphere? - Washington Post ?I can?t get enough of Anne Zouroudi?s dapper and enigmatic Greek detective Hermes Diaktoros? - The Australian ?Diaktoros is a delight. Half Poirot, half deus ex machina, but far more earth-bound than his first name suggests, the portly detective has an otherworldly, Marlowesque incorruptibility. There is also a cracking plot, colourful local characters and descriptions of the hot, dry countryside so strong that you can almost see the heat haze and hear the cicadas ? the perfect read to curl up with? - Guardian ?Anne Zouroudi writes about the nitty-gritty underbelly of life on the Greek islands but with much pathos and passion. Each one is a delicious delight to be savoured at your leisure? - Top Ten Best Novels about Greece, Away with the Ferries ?Greece so charmingly portrayed in Anne Zouroudi's novels? - The Times

ISBN-13: 9781999910020
ISBN-10: 1999910028
Publication Date: 7/4/2018
Pages: 297
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Publisher: Kounelaki
Book Type: Paperback
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