On the 16th of April 2004 in a monastery of Mt. Athos, monks discover in terror the dead body of a young woman in one of their cells. All of a sudden, Mt. Athos, a place of Christian morality and pure ethos, where women are banished from entering for over a thousand years, becomes a crime scene of great pathos…
Who killed that young lady? Under which circumstances? Is the death related to a sexual scandal? Is the interference of foreign powers to blame? Has Lucifer put a hand on it or is the real cause behind it something more frightening than all of that?
Akrivos evokes an atmosphere that combines the solitude of the monastic life with a worldly murder investigation in a book that flirts playfully with the detective novel without quite becoming one. Action goes beyond the confines of Athos, as it includes references to the religious, social and politico-ideological make-up of contemporary Greece.
Metaixmio, 2007, 400 p.
