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    Murder in Mykonos
    Murder in Mykonos
    Murder in Mykonos
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    Murder in Mykonos

    By Jeffrey Siger

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    One woman dead, another missing—and time is running out

    Politically incorrect detective Andreas Kaldis, promoted out of Athens to serve as police chief for Mykonos, is certain his homicide investigation days are over. Murders don't happen in Greece's tourist heaven. At least that's what he's thinking as he stares at the remains of a young woman, ritually bound and buried on a pile of human bones inside a remote mountain church.

    Teamed with the nearly-retired local homicide chief, Andreas must find the killer before the world-wide media attention can destroy the Greek island's fabled reputation with rumors of a mystery that's haunted Mykonos for decades.

    When another young woman disappears, political niceties no longer matter. The murder mystery quickly becomes a rescue operation, and Andreas races against a killer intent on claiming a new victim...

    This high-stakes adventure introduces Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis, and begins a series perfect for armchair travelers interested in pairing the idyllic views of Greece with devious mysteries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 30, 2011
    ISBN9781615951987
    Murder in Mykonos
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    Jeffrey Siger

    Jeffrey Siger is an American living on the Aegean Greek island of Mykonos. A former Wall Street lawyer, he gave up his career as a name partner in his own New York City law firm to write the international best-selling, award recognized Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series of mystery thrillers telling more than just a fast-paced story. The New York Times described his novels as "thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales" and named him as Greece's thriller novelist of record. Athens Insider Magazine hails him as "a literary star," the Greek government selected him as the only American author writing novels serving as a guide to Greece, and Reader's Digest calls him "one of our new favorite authors." He's also served as Chair of the National Board of Bouchercon, America's largest mystery convention, and as Adjunct Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College, teaching mystery writing.

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    • 3/5
      Pretty well done but I’m not a fan of descriptively detailed torture, so it lost a star there. The main character and many of the supporting characters were well drawn and the climax was tense and compelling. The end, however, was a bit of a cheat.
    • 3/5
      Maybe it's the language. Maybe it's the setup. Nothing surprising. Just a good runthru of a mystery. Not quite boring. But close sometimes. Traditional mystery but in exotic locale. O
    • 4/5
      Andreas Kaldis is unhappy with his recent appointment as police chief on the Greek island Mykonos. Although it has the appearance of a promotion, it's actually an exile from Athens after he riled his superiors in his last investigation. Mykonos has a reputation as a party island, and crimes often go unacknowledged to avoid negative publicity that might damage the tourist economy. When Kaldis discovers evidence that a serial killer has been murdering tourists for nearly 20 years, he knows he's in hot water. The investigation becomes more urgent when he learns that the deputy minister's niece is missing on Mykonos. Kaldis and his men are in a race against time to find the missing woman before she becomes the killer's next victim.This first in series book has all the ingredients of a film thriller. Since this is the first book in a series, it's hard to say at this point which path the series will follow – thriller or police procedural. The setting, characters, and politics that underlie both professional and social interaction all seem authentic, probably because the author lives in Mykonos for part of the year. This series will appeal to readers who enjoy crime novels with exotic settings. The occasionally strong language and sexual content may be too much for readers with a preference for cozy/gentle reads.
    • 3/5
      Jeffrey Siger cranks up the tension in his debut outing for Inspector Kaldis, a police officer reassigned to Mykonos after ruffling too many feathers in Athens. Kaldis races around the island after a serial killer, who's killed 18 tourists (all tall, blonde and female) and has currently kidnapped number 19. While this is a page turner, the plot is ludicrous and stereotypes abound. One for the beach.
    • 4/5
      This really isn't bad at all - the opening pages are not well written, and the heart sinks, but having stayed with it, I found the pages turning freely, if not un-put-down-ably: the tension is built effectively, and there is an interesting development of the relationship between the police chief on Mykonos and his boss who oversees the Cycladic islands in general. The author introduces a good variety of suspects (perhaps he even overeggs this particular pudding), and the crimes are nicely gruesome, although there is some tastelessness in their description. Towards the end, my interest did begin to fade a little - there is a rather tedious chase sequence, and the mischievous ending doesn't wholly convince (though full marks for effort); it's more frustrating than amusing. Having said all that, though, I'll definitely try the next in the series.
    • 3/5
      The imprisonment and torture of a woman was too graphic and detailed for me to enjoy the book.
    • 3/5
      Oh, I felt so disenchanted at the end of this! The girls are all just so dumb, and the men are all rude and corrupt. How sad that it all happens against such a beautiful background! The author does a great job with sense of place, and with the overall feeling, but I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough at the end. As though nobody would find out so many girls died there?
    • 4/5
      I liked this book better than I thought I would mostly because I'm not a big "suspense" fan. However this one did a lot of character building which often suspense doesn't manage to do.

      Andreas Kaldis has been "promoted" out of Athens to be Police Chief in Mykonos. His goal is to survive this tour of duty and get back to Athens.

      Very shortly into his time in Mykonos a construction worker finds a body in a church crypt. More bodies are then found scattered across small churches in the countryside. Since there has never been a serial killer in Greece Andreas is fighting time and also the establishment of both Mykonos and Greece to try and find the killer before he kills again.

      The story moves along pretty quickly and you get a taste of life on an island in the Aegean Sea, especially the party island of Mykonos.

      I'll probably read more in this series but it might be a while, I need to space out my suspense books with things less, intense.
    • 2/5
      Andreas Kildis has a new job as chief of Police on the Greek Island of Mykonos. He’s not particularly happy with his promotion as it has, he believes, taken him away from the action in Athens. However, soon after he arrives he is called to one of the island’s many churches where the body of a young woman has been discovered. It soon transpires that a serial killer of beautiful young foreign women has been operating un-noticed for 20 years or so. While trying to hide the fact of the killings in case the tourists flee the island, Kildis and Tassos Stamatos, a Homicide investigator from a nearby island, have to track down the killer who they believe has kidnapped a young Dutch tourist in readindess for another murder.

      I admit I’ve only spent a couple of days on Mykonos but I hated every minute of them (if you’ve never been there perhaps imagine an Ibiza full of holidaying Brits or Cancun during American Spring break). I do have a sense that Siger has captured the essence of the place which he depicts as one of natural beauty that the thousands of visitors there at any one time seem to go out of their way to ignore while they get drunk and have meaningless sex with strangers. The politics of corruption, misogyny and cover-up, particularly when it comes to protecting the island’s only viable industry, tourism, is also drawn very realistically. I don’t imagine Siger, an American who lives for part of each year on the island, will be on the local tourist board’s Christmas card list.

      The rest of the book though, for me, wasn’t terribly believable or very entertaining. For a start I’m a bit fed up with serial killer novels in general. The disproportionate number of such killers in fiction versus the real world makes most tales featuring them read like make-believe and I think I may have reached my lifetime saturation point for reading descriptions of young women being ickily tortured and killed because there’s a psychotic with a fetish on the loose. To be fair the descriptions of such activities in this book are at the less gruesome end of the gore scale but still I’ve had my fill. Personally I think the story of the single kidnapping of the young Dutch woman was suspenseful enough on its own and would still have provided Siger the opportunity to incorporate lots of local flavour. Looking for Hannibal Lecter behind every olive tree didn’t add anything of value for me.

      The other disappointing aspect of the novel was the plotting which grew increasingly ludicrous. I actually imagined the author sitting back somewhere laughing at how he’d managed to get away with publishing such a nonsensical ending. A handful of potential suspects had been clumsily introduced earlier in the novel and, seemingly, one picked at random to be revealed as the culprit on the last page.

      This is Siger’s debut novel and he does show potential with aspects of his writing like the character of Andreas Kildis who wrestles credibly with his need to investigate properly versus his desire to do what’s necessary politically to get himself back to Athens. However I can’t imagine myself rushing out to pick up the next book in this series if the plot and subject matter are as predictable and superficial as in this one.
    • 5/5
      I picked this up as a bargain read for my wife as we'd visited Mykonos and I thought she might like it. She did! It turned out to be one of if not THE best mystery I've read this year. A unique setting, a grizzly murder, plenty of suspects, good plot, and a dash of thrill and suspense make this one that you won't want to put down. And the author doesn't reveal the true villain until the very last paragraph so it's good to the last drop!
    • 5/5
      First Line: Just past midnight the massive Rodanthi ferry silently made its grand entrance into Mykonos' narrow, crescent-shaped harbor.Athens, Greece knows just how to deal with hot-shot, outspoken, politically incorrect homicide detectives. Promoted out of Athens to serve as police chief for the island of Mykonos, Andreas Kaldis is certain his homicide days are done. He's going to be right in the middle of tourist heaven, and people just aren't murdered in such places. Famous last words, right?When the remains of a young woman are found ritually bound and buried on a pile of human bones inside a remote mountain church, Kaldis teams with a savvy local homicide chief to find the killer before the news leaks out and destroys the island's reputation as a fun-- and safe-- place to party. Then a young woman disappears, and the race is on to identify a cunning predator.I almost couldn't turn the pages fast enough as I read Murder in Mykonos. Siger put out a banquet for me, and I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss a crumb. Ancient and modern Mykonos was vividly brought to life, and Kaldis is a strong central character who longs to return to Athens-- and he's smart enough to know that the best way of doing that is by turning his department of officers fresh out of the academy into topnotch policemen.The plot was engrossing as well, with a worthy villain whose devious mind kept him out of the spotlight and free to continue his spree. Tracking him down led me all over the island and into the history and lore of Mykonos which I really enjoyed.As much as Kaldis wants to return to Athens, I'm hoping he'll stay on the island for another book or two. He and I both do well in such a beautiful setting!
    • 3/5
      Police Chief Andreas Kaldis, recently arrived from Athens, discovers that the newly discovered body of a tall blonde non-Grecian woman is just the latest in a string of murders dating back 18 years. Corruption on the force, coupled with the desire to do no harm to Mykonos' reputation among tourists, is what had been driving the cover-up of missing women. The deputy minister's niece Annika has arrived on the island after a hasty departure from a broken relationship. When her mother is unable to reach her, a mass effort is made to keep her from being the next victim. This is an interesting, but flawed, debut novel. The author did a great job in building suspense, but some of the characters were not well-developed. There are aspects in the solution that are never fully developed. There are characters that the author brought into the book but then seems to forget about as the plot develops even though they should still be present. After the serial killer is "caught," the readers are left guessing his identity until the last paragraph of the book. There is mild profanity scattered throughout the book. While it's probably how the characters would respond, it's not something I enjoy reading. While I may choose to read future installments in the series, I'm not adding the next one to my wish list.
    • 4/5
      This is an above average police procedural set in Mykonos, Greece. There's a serial killer on the loose, seeking out young female foreign tourists as his victims. The new police chief, who is a former homicide detective from Athens, has the task of finding the killer, with the help of a local homicide detective. There's several suspects and an exciting chase at the end of the book. It's a good read, fairly well-paced and interesting characters.
    • 1/5
      Mediocre mystery set in spectacular location

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