Lukas
He came to Crete to find out where he came from. Instead, he found a body — and became the prime suspect in her murder.
Lukas has flown halfway round the world from Australia to the sun-drenched shores of Elounda, hoping to walk in his late mother’s footsteps: the village where she grew up, the school where his grandfather taught, the ruined island where his father once lived. What he finds instead, on a quiet donkey trail above the bay, is the body of a woman he has never met.
Within hours, Lukas is the only suspect Inspector Antonakis has. His passport is confiscated. His name is the one whispered around the village. And somewhere in England, the woman’s husband — grieving in public, relieved in private — is already planning his future with the mistress next door.
As the investigation closes in on the wrong man, the real killer’s carefully staged “accident” is unravelling thread by thread: a camera strap that shouldn’t be in his pocket, a blood group that doesn’t add up, a photograph with one second too many between two phone calls. Meanwhile, life around Lukas carries on regardless — a family readying for their busiest season yet, an archaeological team pulling drowned roads from the bay, and a tsunami warning that empties the coastline in minutes flat.
Book 29 of the beloved Cretan Saga, Lukas brings the series’ warmth and multi-generational family detail together with something new for this saga: a genuine, slow-tightening murder investigation, told from both the wrongly accused and the man who did it. A story about the parts of a family’s past that surface even on the other side of the world — and the parts best left buried.
“I have been waiting eagerly for this latest book.” — Lin Lucioni
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