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A Deeper Shade of Blue

3.48 ( 83 Ratings by Goodreads)
A Deeper Shade of Blue

A Deeper Shade of Blue

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3.48 (83 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 28 April, 2003
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When Alex Mavros is asked to track down a missing woman, he jumps at the chance to leave the stifling heat of Athens. Travelling to the small island of Trigono, he soon realises that there is more than one mystery to be solved. How did a young couple drown in the nets of a fishing boat? Why did a British journalist leave without telling her friends? Why is the millionaire Theocharis so nervous and whose bones does old Maro keep beneath her bed? The answers lie in events that took place during the Second World War, events that tie in with the island's most ancient history. In a race to prevent a terrible crime being repeated, Alex Mavros is pitted against a ruthless and depraved killer...
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780340766156
ISBN10 0340766158
Number Of Pages 400
Item Weight 218 g
Product Dimensions 112 x 176 x 25 mm
Publisher / Reseller Hodder & Stoughton
Format paperback
Edition New edition
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'A sensual portrait of modern Greece, as well as a great page-turner: taste the salt, feel the heat as you follow the dramatic story!offers much more than the crime fiction genre usually encompasses: a rich and intelligent story, with fascinating characters' Scotland on Sunday on A DEEPER SHADE OF BLUE 'A new departure for an immensely talented author, and the change of scene from the Scotland of the earlier books to the author's new home of Greece pays great dividends' Barry Forshaw, Publishing News on A DEEPER SHADE OF BLUE 'Excellent' - Philip Kerr on A DEEPER SHADE OF BLUE 'Another fine example of great storytelling' - Sunday Telegraph on THE HOUSE OF DUST 'Johnston brings an intelligent perspective to the dark excitement of the thriller' - Nicholas Blincoe, Observer on WATER OF DEATH '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

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Author's Bio

Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh, studied Greek at Oxford and now divides his time between the UK and a small Greek island. He is also the highly-acclaimed author of the Quintilian Dalrymple series, winning the John Creasey Memorial Dagger for best first crime novel.

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