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The House of Atreus: Clytemnestra’s Bind

The House of Atreus: Clytemnestra’s Bind
  • Author(s): Susan C Wilson
  • Location(s): Mycenae, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece, 1260 BC.

The House of Atreus is spiralling into self-destruction—a woman must find a way to break the family curse. Queen Clytemnestra’s world shatters when Agamemnon, a rival to the throne of Mycenae, storms her palace, destroys her family and claims...

The House of Dust and Dreams

The House of Dust and Dreams
  • Author(s): Brenda Reid
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Evadne, finds it hard to fit in with the whirl of endless parties and...

The Infinity Pool

The Infinity Pool
  • Author(s): Jessica Norrie
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010-11

Adrian Hartman is the charismatic director of the Serendipity holiday community, set among pine trees on a sun baked Greek island. His job is to ensure the perfect mindful break, with personal growth and inner peace guaranteed. His guests...

The Invisible

The Invisible
  • Author(s): Peter Papathanasiou
  • Location(s): Prespes Region
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region which straddles the borders of Greece, Albania and...

The Messenger of Athens #1

The Messenger of Athens #1
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Dodecanese Islands, Symi
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate...

The Papas and the Englishman

The Papas and the Englishman
  • Author(s): Roy Hounsell
  • Location(s): Corfu, Zagoria
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

Roy & Effie Hounsell escaped from England to Corfu in 1980, before deciding in 1991 to buy and renovate a traditional stone house in Koukouli, one of the 46 villages in remote, mountainous Zagoria, on the north west Greek...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

The Two Faces of January

The Two Faces of January
  • Author(s): Patricia Highsmith
  • Location(s): Athens, Crete, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter...

The Way It Breaks

The Way It Breaks
  • Author(s): Polis Loizou
  • Location(s): Cyprus, Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Orestis is a young man who refuses to accept his lot in life. He wants a better job, a toned body, his own place, a brighter future. On a night out, he bumps into an old school friend who...

The Whispers of Nemesis #5

The Whispers of Nemesis #5
  • Author(s): Anne Zouroudi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It is winter in the mountains of Greece and as the snow falls in the tiny village of Vrisi a coffin is unearthed and broken open, revealing some unexpected remains to the astonished mourners gathered at the graveside. In...

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