Prey on Patmos

Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over nineteen hundred years ago in a cave on Greeces eastern Aegean island of Patmos. But now there has been a murder. A revered monk from that holy islands thousandyearold monastery is murdered in Patmos town square during Easter week. Called in on the matter is Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of Greeces Special Crimes Division. Kaldis must find the killer before all hell breaks loosein a manner of speaking. Kaldis impolitic search for answers brings him facetoface with a scandal haunting the worlds oldest surviving monastic community. On the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than fifteen hundred years. But today this sacred refuge harbors modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Churchin a matter of days.A Poisoned Pen Press Mystery