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2000s: The messenger of Athens has a serious job to do…Enter Hermes Diaktoros.
The Messenger of Athens #1
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A young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island battered to death, but the police there simply brush the matter aside saying that it’s an accident and that there is nothing more to do. But then the messenger of Athens appears by the name of Hermes. Uninvited and not at all welcome, he starts to investigate for himself making the police and everyone around him very nervous indeed. Where is he from, who is he and what exactly does he know? More importantly why is he here?
Travel Guide
The fictional island of Thiminos
To the fictional island of Thiminos comes Hermes Diaktoros, the messenger of Athens who turns out to be the Greek god Hermes. Once used to classical times, now he is a private investigator of the modern world.
This is the novel of the seven deadly sins series – this is the novel of LUST and Diaktoris the messenger in more ways than one come to this island to sort out the sins and to ensure people get what they deserve. His arrival announces to them that they have to tell the truth or face the consequences
Although a fictional island the novel is rich in evocative detail –
“Early morning and a sombre sky. The Sea, stirred to sand slurry by a bitter wind, had turned opaque”
“The small boats at their moorings rocked and tupped, pulling at their ropes”
Onto this gorgeous setting where a murder has been committed and intrigue lives, enters he who they call the fat man. A fat man from Athens on the island where lust swirls in the waves that wash up at the harbour
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Destination: Greece Departure Time: 2000s The Messenger of Athens
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