Mykonos After Midnight: A Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery

The bludgeoning murder of Mykonos nightclub owner Christos Vasilakis at his house on Mykonos kick-starts Siger’s satisfying fifth mystery featuring Chief Insp. Andreas Kaldis (after 2012’s Target: Tinos). Tassos Stamatos, the chief homicide investigator for the Cyclades, brings in Kaldis, the head of Greece’s special crimes division, from Athens to deal with highly compromising material that he discovers in the victim’s safe. Meanwhile, the prime murder suspect, Christos’s girlfriend, Anna, turns up dead in Bialystok, Poland, then Tassos himself goes missing. The investigation that follows—highlighted by political interference and the piecing together of a complicated international plot that threatens to disrupt the easygoing, anything-goes life that Mykonos is famous for—keeps the reader engaged, even as it makes obvious that in Greece it really matters whom you know. The emergence of a shadowy master criminal bodes well for future adventures. (Sept.)