Prey on Patmos : An Inspector Kaldis Mystery

from cathyskye

In the third book of this excellent series, Jeffrey Siger has two objectives. One, to show Kaldis's deepening relationship with Lila and their impending parenthood, and two, to show the importance of religion in Greece. He succeeds in both cases. Kaldis is his normal, acerbic self-- more concerne...

from thornton37814

Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis investigates the murder of a monk on the island of Patmos during Holy Week. At the same time, Lila (to whom he is not married) is about to give birth to their first child. Kaldis hopes he can wrap the investigation up quickly so he can return home quickly, but it be...

from Condorena

On a dark night early in the Easter Week of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the body of the larger Eastern Orthodox Church, a saintly monk is cruelly murdered on the winding streets of Patmos, an island in Greece.The crime was heinous not only because of the nature of the victim but because it...

from auntmarge64

An enjoyable third Inspector Kaldis mystery, set primarily on the Greek island of Patmos, where Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation. A beloved elderly monk is murdered, and as Kaldis and his partner investigate, all trails lead to a conspiracy to influence the future location of the Ecumenica...

from macabr

PREY ON PATMOS is the third book in the Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series and, like its predecessors, is an entertaining police procedural and an engrossing look at twenty-first century social problems against the background of an ancient culture. "There was an unusual cadence to the man's wa...