May 2012, election day. Police officer Dimos Geres returns to Heraklion after twenty years to be present for his father’s final hours. Waiting for him at the port are his old childhood friend and the body of a young whore. Hidden in the mouth of the dead woman is found the ring of Geres’ long dead mother. Police officer Ivan Alexandrov takes charge of the case and things get more complicated when a second body turns up, with Geres’ father’s ring in its mouth. Geres is forced to investigate the secret past of his family and is led to an

old story which turns his life upside down. A political noir novel which brings together four landmark periods for Greece: the events of July 1965, the invasion of Cyprus in 1974, “dirty ‘89” and the elections of 2012. A book in which the reader comes face to face with covered-up crimes of the past, wandering through the unfamiliar geography of Heraklion and the dark tunnels of contemporary history.

Kastaniotis, 2017, 384 P.