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The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers
  • Author(s): Scarlett Thomas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on an idyllic Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and out at sea a storm is brewing. They check in to an...

The Stolen Book

The Stolen Book
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hidden under dust, stacked and forgotten lay the book. Just a pamphlet really, only within its pages it promised to show a way to unlimited wealth right out of the circumstances that surrounded her. It wasn’t hers, she shouldn’t...

The Summer House in Santorini

The Summer House in Santorini
  • Author(s): Samantha Parks
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

One summer in Greece will change everything… Anna’s running away. From a failed relationship, a dead-end career and a complicated family life. On the island of Santorini, with its picturesque villas, blue-tiled roofs, and the turquoise waters of the Aegean...

The Summer of Secrets

The Summer of Secrets
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Kastellorizo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

In this emotional novel based on Greece’s real history we follow three generations of one family, broken apart by secrets and war, as Olivia travels to the island of her mother’s birth to piece together a century’s worth of...

The Summer Wedding in Santorini

The Summer Wedding in Santorini
  • Author(s): Samantha Parks
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Anna has the perfect life on the island of Santorini with her gorgeous vineyard-owning boyfriend Nikos, and she travels the world for work. So why does she feel that something is missing? When Anna’s best friend Elena gets engaged,...

The Sunshine Getaway

The Sunshine Getaway
  • Author(s): Holly Greene
  • Location(s): Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sit back, relax and enjoy a getaway to idyllic Rhodes … Sara is marrying Robert soon, but instead of a traditional hen night or bachelorette party, she decides to invite her friends to her fiancé’s luxurious villa on the...

The Surprise Party

The Surprise Party
  • Author(s): Julia Crouch
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This trip was meant to save our marriage. Instead it will destroy everything… To celebrate my special birthday, my husband and I have returned to the beautiful Greek island village where we spent our honeymoon. As the boat pulls...

The Taverna at the Edge of Night

The Taverna at the Edge of Night
  • Author(s): H Y Hanna
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes the most beautiful locations hide the deadliest betrayal. When Daphne travels to a remote fishing village on the Greek island of Crete, she’s looking forward to sun-drenched days, dazzling sea views, and a happy reunion with her best...

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
  • Author(s): Charlie Laidlaw
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Crete, East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is a modern fairytale of love and loss. It’s about the subtle ways in which we change, and how the small decisions that we make can have profound and unintended consequences. On...

The Threshing Circle

The Threshing Circle
  • Author(s): Neil Grimmett
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Various

A young couple arrive on the Greek island of Crete and begin prying into the execution of a beautiful English woman during the German occupation sixty years before. They enter a labyrinth of forbidden love, betrayals, murder, greed and...

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