WHEN THE DEVIL’S IDLE
Book ID/图书代码： 12580015B84180
English Summary/英文概要： In the Book of Revelations, written by St. John on the Greek island of Patmos, it was said a pale horse would appear whose rider was death, others would cry out for vengeance, and the stars of heaven would fall to the earth.
Death does indeed come to Patmos when a German tourist is found murdered in the garden of one of the island’s fabled estates. Yiannis Patronas, Chief Officer of the Chios police, is called in to investigate. He summons his top detective, Giorgos Tembelos, and his friend and amateur sleuth, Papa Michalis, to assist him.
What the policemen discover will disturb them long after the conclusion of the case. Only six people were at the house at the time of the murder—the gardener and housekeeper, the victim’s son and his wife and their two children, a boy of seven and a teenage girl of sixteen. All appear to be innocent. But access to the isolated estate is severely restricted. Surrounded by high walls, it has only one entrance: a metal gate that was bolted at the time of the crime. Patronas can only conclude that one of the six is a killer. He continues to probe, uncovering the family’s many secrets. Some are very old, others more recent. All are horrifying.
But which of these secrets led to murder?
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 圣•约翰在帕特摩斯岛（位于爱琴海东南部）书写了《启示录》，书中提到当一匹白马的骑士出现时，就意味着死亡，幸存者会为复仇而大声喊叫，天堂的星辰就此坠落于苍茫大地。
当死神真的降临到帕特摩斯岛，一名德国游客被发现谋杀于岛上一处传说中的庄园的花园中，希俄斯岛（希腊希俄斯州的岛屿，位于爱琴海）的警官，奉命前去调查命案。他叫来了自己的顶尖探员，乔治•坦布罗斯，和他的朋友以及一名业余侦探爱好者，帕帕•米哈里斯协助他一起破案。
警察们将会发现结案件后不久，这起案件会让他们更为困扰。案发时，只有六人当时在这所凶案房子里 — — 园丁和管家，受害者的儿子和他的妻子和两个孩子，一个七岁的男孩和一名十六岁的少女。看起来都是寻常之人。但这处与世隔绝的庄园有着高级别的管控。它被高高的城墙包围，只有一个入口:案发现场只有一个金属门掉落的门栓。帕特摩斯岛上的这起凶案中的六之一是杀手。他继续调查，发现了家里的许多秘密。有些已经是个很久，而有些是最近的。而所有的这些让人不寒而栗秘密。是导致这起谋杀案的诱因吗? (Sandy
Awards/获奖情况："This classic fair-play whodunit, the excellent sequel to 2014’s The Devil Takes Half (Serafim’s first Greek Island mystery), takes Yiannis Patronas, the endearing chief police officer on the island of Chios, to Patmos, where someone has bashed in the skull of Walter Bechtel, a 90-year-old German, in the garden of his foster son Gunther’s holiday residence--and carved a swastika on the victim’s forehead. When Patronas asks Gunther about his foster father’s past, Gunther becomes defensive and claims that his papa was ’just an ordinary man’ and did not commit any atrocities during WWII. Serafim does an especially good job of integrating Greece’s current financial struggles into the story line, and Patronas’s colleagues, especially an eccentric priest with a taste for seafood, lighten what otherwise could have been a very grim tale without minimizing the underlying horror of the background to the crime." --Publishers Weekly
4 Stars: "The pairing of cynical Patronas and optimistic Michalis injects some humor in an otherwise moderately paced procedural. Serafim expertly creates the beauty of Greece. However, the real draws of this book are the fully developed, complex characters, and the facts on Greek culture and history. Book two in the Greek Islands Mystery series is sure to satisfy." --RT Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： 莱塔•塞拉菲母在搬至希腊教授艺术和插画图书前，曾是《洛杉矶时报》华盛顿分社的一名记者。后来她回到美国，在着手准备自己的小说之前，为《波士顿环球日报》撰写了几部专题报道。夏季作者会前往希腊渡假。Leta Serafim is the author of the Greek Islands Mystery series, published by the Coffeetown Press, as well as the historical novel, To Look on Death No More. She has visited over twenty-five islands in Greece and continues to divide her time between Boston and Greece. You can find her online at letaserafim.com.
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