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Prey on Patmos

por Jeffrey Siger

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Series: Inspector Kaldis (3)

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"[A] suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece." --Publishers Weekly Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Today, on the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets ofByzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. When a revered monk from that holy island's thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos' town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of Greece's twenty-first century Special Crimes Division is called upon to find the killer before all hell breaks loose. Andreas' impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world'soldest surviving monastic community. He finds that this ancient and sacred refuge harbors some very modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church.… (más)
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We have the gang back together to solve a bizarre and brutal murder of a beloved Orthodox monk on the island of revelations--Patmos--heading into Easter. While Kaldis is trying to ruin his perfect life relationship with a rich, beautiful, and very pregnant Lila, his gang of regulars, Kouros, Tassos, and Maggie are aiding him from all sides in hunting down the criminal. As is customary with a Kaldis mystery, a substantial portion of the narration comes from the murderer's perspective. A pleasant trip to another Greek locale as if one were actually there. ( )
  JohnLocke84 | Mar 15, 2024 |
The topic (church politics) and, for me, exotic location (various Greek islands, mostly Patmos) drew me to this book. It actually didn't do badly on those criteria. I now know a lot more about the complexities of the current Eastern Orthodox church than I did previously, and the descriptions of various Cyclades and Dodecanese islands were a tempting travelogue.

So that's the good stuff. On the flip side, there was a bit too much testosterone permeating nearly every page for my tastes. This seems to be a problem for me with most crime novels set in southern Europe. This book had a few female characters with speaking roles, but they were each either involved romantically with the male characters or femmes fatale.

And the plot, which started our pretty well, ended up with some preposterous coincidences (see reference to femme fatale above) that would have been more appropriate for an international spy thriller than a police procedural.

Ah well. It did read quickly and kept my attention for the first half. 2.5 stars rounded up to three. ( )
  BarbKBooks | Aug 15, 2022 |
Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis investigates the murder of a monk on the island of Patmos during Holy Week. At the same time, Lila (to whom he is not married) is about to give birth to their first child. Kaldis hopes he can wrap the investigation up quickly so he can return home quickly, but it becomes apparent that this murder was committed by professionals. Readers become versed in church politics and the tensions between the Greek and Russian Orthodox factions. Stefan Rudnicki did a good job narrating the Blackstone Audio version of the book. Siger skillfully plotted the book, creating tensions at the right moments and keeping the reader interested from start to finish. The only negative for me was the use of more profanity than I am comfortable reading or hearing. This is the third in the series, and I've only read the first. Siger overcame the flaws of the first novel with better development of plot and characters in this one. ( )
  thornton37814 | Apr 30, 2016 |
In the third book of this excellent series, Jeffrey Siger has two objectives. One, to show Kaldis's deepening relationship with Lila and their impending parenthood, and two, to show the importance of religion in Greece. He succeeds in both cases.

Kaldis is his normal, acerbic self-- more concerned with putting the bad guys behind bars than he is of being politically correct or of avoiding trampling the feelings of others. But that is his work face and not at all the way his relationship is with the woman he loves. Lila is smart, rich, cosmopolitan, beautiful... and deeply in love with Andreas. The only cloud on the horizon is Kaldis's reluctance to make their partnership a formal one. Watching these two work this out is alternately touching, funny, and downright sexy.

The tougher of Siger's two assignments is showing how important religion is to Greece through the chief inspector's murder investigation. Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Patmos, and to this day the Greek Orthodox Church plays a huge role in the lives of the Greek people. I found the entire situation with Turkey, Russia and Greece to be fascinating-- as well as how it could affect monastic life on such a small island.

Jeffrey Siger continues to enthrall me with his savvy characters and his interpretations of life in an ancient and vibrant country. I highly recommend this series. ( )
  cathyskye | Nov 30, 2013 |
On a dark night early in the Easter Week of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the body of the larger Eastern Orthodox Church, a saintly monk is cruelly murdered on the winding streets of Patmos, an island in Greece.
The crime was heinous not only because of the nature of the victim but because it happened during a holy time and in a holy place. Patmos is in the eastern Aegean and it is here in a cave almost 2000 years ago that Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation. It has a small police force of it’s own but in an unusual case like this one which many would like to attribute to muggers, Chief Inspector Andreas Caldis of the Special Crimes Division is called to take over the investigation.

In the Greek Orthodox Church Easter is the most important day of the year. Easter week is the week preceding Easter day. Tourists flock to places such as Patmos and Mount Athos another religious site that contains 20 monasteries, which have been there fifteen centuries.
Mount Athos is a self-governing monastic state that is vaguely a parallel to Rome. The monasteries all have one representative to a central Holy Community. And the leader of this group is known as the Protos. Ultimately the heard of the Eastern Orthodox Church resides in Istanbul once known as Constantinople, Turkey. At this time the Turks have passed new laws who ultimate effect will be to push the central leader and his organization out of Turkey from whence it will be moved to Either Russia or Greece. Naturally the Greeks prefer this latter scenario and the politics surrounding this move are at once complicated and devious.

Solving this murder is going to be difficult because initial findings mean that Kaldis must be privy to the inside workings of the monasteries and most abbots believe in keeping their own council. Andreas and his associate have an uphill battle as they use every source in their power to find a killer hidden deep in monastic life surrounded by many people who think he is just an ordinary or maybe an extraordinary monk.
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  Condorena | Apr 2, 2013 |
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**'Prey On Patmos' is also published as 'An Aegean Prophecy'
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"[A] suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece." --Publishers Weekly Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Today, on the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets ofByzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years. When a revered monk from that holy island's thousand-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos' town square during Easter Week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of Greece's twenty-first century Special Crimes Division is called upon to find the killer before all hell breaks loose. Andreas' impolitic search for answers brings him face-to-face with a scandal haunting the world'soldest surviving monastic community. He finds that this ancient and sacred refuge harbors some very modern international intrigues that threaten to destroy the very heart of the Church.

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