Set against a glorious Greek background, the spellbinding new Alex
Mavros mystery.
Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete,
private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred. The
company is shooting a movie about the invasion of Crete by the Germans
in 1941 ' and their activities are stirring up old resentments among the
islanders.
The bitterness of the past bursts into the present when one of the
film's consultants is found dead, hanged by the neck. Suicide ' or
murder? Mavros investigates and is drawn into an ever-widening
conspiracy.