Crying Blue Murder (Book 1 in the Alex Mavros trilogy) (MIRA) [Paperback]

'A sensual portrait of modern Greece, as well as a great page-turner... a rich and intelligent story, with fascinating characters.' --Scotland on Sunday

'Gripping pace...a perfect holiday companion' --The Times

'A perfect setting for a tense thriller...this is an intelligent and satisfying book, part contemporary thriller, part the dark sister of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.' --Scotsman

Book 1 in the Alex Mavros trilogy, orginally published as A Deeper Shade of Blue. Murder in paradise. American tourist Rosa Ozal has disappeared from an idyllic Greek island and investigator Alec Mavros is hired to trace her. Half-Greek, half-Scots, Mavros is in the perfect position to play the innocent holidaymaker.Mavros soon discovers there's more going on than meets the eye. Two young islanders have ended up in the nets of a local fishing boat; a British journalist has left the island without warning and the resident millionaire and museum owner seems to be very ill at ease. In a race to stop a terrible crime being repeated, Mavros must break through the whitewashed walls of silence to uncover the secrets and lies at the heart of this island paradise.

Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1957 and studied Greek at Oxford. Paul now divides his time between the UK and Greece.