Petros Markaris – författare

Inspector Costas Haritos of the Athens CID has finally made time for a holiday. But when a minor earthquake causes his holiday beach to spit up a corpse, he finds there is no such thing as being off duty.Back in Athens, and working on the mystery of the as-yet unidentified body, Haritos is assigend a second case. A well-known nightclub owner and entrepreneur has been murdered, and neither the victim's beautiful young wife, his estranged daughter or his junkie son seem keen to offer up any clues. Haritos delves into the worlds of organised crime, football, and even opinion polling in his hunt for the killers. But it seems there is more than one person who would rather these crimes remained unsolved.

When an Albanian husband and wife are found dead in their home, Inspector Costas Haritos, a veteran junta-trained homicide detective on the Athens police force, is called to what seems at first to be an open-and-shut case. For the Greek police, two dead Albanians are hardly a matter of concern. But when Albania's celebrity television news reporter Janna Karayoryi insists that the case was closed too early, Haritos becomes unnerved. He doesn't exactly like the ambitious young journalist, but could she be right in thinking the murder has something to do with babies?Before Haritos can find out, Janna is suddenly murdered, moments before she is to go on the air with a startling newsbreak. Did her mysterious report have something to do with the murdered Albanians? Who wanted her silenced, and why? Caught between a bumbling junior officer and higher-ups all too easily influenced by news executives determined to protect their own, Costas Haritos sets out to get to the bottom of the matter-and ends up neck deep in a dark form of capitalism that has emerged in Albania after the dictatorship.

Die Morde an mehreren Bankern lassen die griechische Finanzwelt erzittern. Die Krise trifft inzwischen jeden, auch die, die sich in Sicherheit wähnten – und Kommissar Charitos steckt mittendrin.

Die moderne griechische Tragödie spielt sich in den Läden und Büros, Straßen und Wohnblocks ab. Petros Markaris beobachtet und kommentiert die einzelnen Akte in zwölf Artikeln, die er für deutschsprachige Medien wie ›Die Zeit‹, ›Die Wochenzeitung‹, ›Die Tageszeitung‹ und die ›Süddeutsche Zeitung‹ seit 2009 geschrieben hat.

Reiche Griechen zahlen keine Steuern. Arme Griechen empören sich darüber, oder sie verzweifeln ob ihrer aussichtslosen Lage. Im zweiten Band der Krisentrilogie tut ein selbsternannter »nationaler Steuereintreiber« weder das eine noch das andere: Er handelt. Mit Drohbriefen, Schierlingsgift und Pfeilbogen – im Namen des Staates.