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The Game of Fear
In these stories, Detective Haritos is not the only one battling crime. An old painter who lived through war and hunger has to fight off hostilities and invents a game of fear. And finally, we meet a Greek and a Turk, two competing restaurant owners at daggers drawn. Yet when they happen to sit down at the same table to eat, they discover a few delectable similarities.
224 pages
2023
978-3-257-07260-0
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»Remarkably, even though these stories revolve around ruins, loneliness and the forgotten, the focal point is on the good that a society – or a few people – can achieve in this world.«
»Based on the best tradition of the crime novel, he consistently reminds us that no future is possible if we don’t fight those who trample on our dignity.«
López
La Razón
Madrid
»Like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Andrea Camilleri, and, at times, Fred Vargas, Markaris modelled his detective on the Antipodes of the roman noir.«