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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...

Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach

Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach
  • Author(s): Ramsey Campbell
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Horror

It’s Ray’s and Sandra’s first family holiday in Greece, on the island of Vasilema. The skies are cloudier than anywhere else in Greece, and they’re intrigued by local eccentricities―the lack of mirrors, the outsize beach umbrellas, the saint’s day...

A Wedding in the Olive Garden

A Wedding in the Olive Garden
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A warm and uplifting novel about love, friendship and new beginnings on the beautiful Greek island of Santaniki. Sara Loveday flees home and crisis to the beautiful island of Santaniki. Here, amid olive groves and whitewashed stone villas, where...

Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir

Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After more than thirty years as a successful carpet and textile designer, Kathryn decided it was time for a change: she wanted to become an author, and the first place she turned for inspiration was Greece, where she had...

Love On Location

Love On Location
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): London, Athens, Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When screenwriter Laurel Martin is hired to rewrite the script for a new timeslip blockbuster, she expects the historical advisor hired by the studio to be an elderly academic who won’t interfere too much with her writing. But when...

Murder Your Darlings

Murder Your Darlings
  • Author(s): Debbie Young
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A funny, gentle cosy mystery adventure set on a tiny Greek island in the Ionian Sea, just off Ithaca, in the tradition of Agatha Christie, but with added English humour and an intriguing cast of authors and aspiring authors...

The Final Problem

The Final Problem
  • Author(s): Arturo Peréz-Reverte, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1960s

To catch a killer, one must act the part. Arriving on the Greek island of Utakos, ageing actor Ormond Basil hopes only for a holiday and perhaps finally to shed the mantle of his most famous role: world-renowned sleuth,...

The Jasmine Isle

The Jasmine Isle
  • Author(s): Ioanna Karystiani, Michael Eleftheriou (translator)
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Set on the breathtaking island of Andros, The Jasmine Isle is one of the finest literary achievements in contemporary Greek literature. Mina Saltaferou is the despotic wife of a ship’s captain, Savvas Saltaferos. Her tyrannical influence over her two...

The Olive Garden Choir

The Olive Garden Choir
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

They have come to Santaniki for different reasons. Some with a dream of happiness. Some running from sadness and failure. But all of them have fallen in love with this most beautiful of Greek islands. When bossy retired bookseller,...

The Olympus Killer

The Olympus Killer
  • Author(s): Luke Christodoulou
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): modern

EVIL UNDER THE GREEK SUN If this summer you are thinking of travelling to the majestic, sun kissed Greek Islands, think again. A sadistic killer is on the loose. THE OLYMPUS KILLER… Over the picturesque Greek Islands, bodies are...

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