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The Greek Island Killer

The Greek Island Killer
  • Author(s): Frances Lloyd
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Please note this was originally published as Nemesis of the Dead. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes Mystery Book 1 SOMEONE’S POISONING PARADISE. Detective Inspector Jack Dawes and his bride, Corrie, join eight other holidaymakers bound for a tiny Greek island,...

The Greek Islands

The Greek Islands
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, and especially the islands of Greece. This captivating and highly unusual text, originally conceived as a picture book and now reset in...

The Greek Proposal

The Greek Proposal
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Isla’s not looking for love on her sabbatical in gorgeous rural Greece. She longs for a sunny lifestyle to revive her health and happiness after a road accident and a car crash of a relationship. Her clifftop villa and...

The Greek Wall

The Greek Wall
  • Author(s): Nicolas Verdan
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding...

The Heroines

The Heroines
  • Author(s): Laura Shepperson
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 8th/9th Century BC

In Athens, crowds flock to witness the most shocking trial of the ancient world. The royal family is mired in scandal. Phaedra, young bride of King Theseus, has accused her stepson, Hippolytus of rape. He’s a prince, a talented...

The House in the Olive Grove

The House in the Olive Grove
  • Author(s): Emma Cowell
  • Location(s): Petalidi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever? Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past. Food journalist...

The Hymn to Dionysus

The Hymn to Dionysus
  • Author(s): Natasha Pulley
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): BCE

A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra. Raised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to fight...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Sarah Goodwin
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jody, Ari and Carla have won golden tickets to the summer’s hottest music festival, which promises to be full of glamour, mystique and lots of freebies. But, arriving on the sun-drenched shores of a private Greek island among influencers...

The Island Between Us

The Island Between Us
  • Author(s): Dougie McHale
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lives. One island. A past that won’t stay buried. After a shattering breakup in Edinburgh, Carissa escapes to the sun drenched Greek island of Skiathos, hoping to heal in the quiet rhythms of nature and solitude. There, she...

The Island Between Us

The Island Between Us
  • Author(s): Dougie McHale
  • Location(s): Skiathos
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary, back to WW2

The Hellenic Collection Two lives bound by love and sacrifice, across decades, across an island, across time itself. Carissa thought she had escaped her past when she fled Edinburgh for the sunlit island of Skiathos. But her peace is...

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