Leo Kanaris Books

Dangerous Days is the third adventure for private investigator George Zafiris in crisis-torn Greece. It shines a light on the most secret and closely-guarded sanctuary of Greek life - the family. While the state lurches between dysfunction and bankruptcy, blood relations turn to each other for support. Debts are written off, misdemeanours forgiven, jobs found for unemployables. But if charity begins at home, it also ends there. Networks of obligation bind people so tight they can never escape. Jealousy runs rampant. Nepotism keeps talent suppressed. Crime and corruption are buried in silence. While solving other people's problems George gets more deeply entangled in his own. When the offer of work arrives from a polluted family source, he is forced to make an impossible choice between poverty and collusion in crime. Both the previous novels Codename Xenophon and Blood and Gold have received great praise in the UK, US and in Germany and Dangerous Days takes this crime series to a new level

At the heart of Codename Xenophon is the Greek nation: its history, culture and current predicament. We see a dysfunctional society through the eyes of George Zafiris, an Athens based private investigator. A thoughtful loner, he is forced to probe the heart of a failing society as he investigates a series of crimes the police show no interest in solving. A distinguished professor of ancient history is shot dead. Then a politician dies in mysterious circumstances and a journalist is murdered. George Zafiris has to find out if these deaths are connected. A gang of Georgian thugs may know the answer. Leo Kanaris has written a thoughtful crime mystery and has created a private investigator the Greek nation can be proud of.

Griechenland – authentisch und gefährlich. Mario Filiotis, der sehr sozial und ökologisch gesinnte Bürgermeister der Insel Astypalea, kommt in Athen bei einem mysteriösen Fahrradunfall ums Leben. Privatdetektiv George Zafiris ist der festen Überzeugung, dass sein Freund ermordet wurde. Doch bei Marios Beerdigung liegt nicht der Tote, sondern ein antiker Goldschatz im Sarg. George Zafiris nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und gerät in ein Labyrinth aus Korruption, Betrug und Gewalt. „Das Bild eines Landes, gegen dessen Dekadenz ein Mann wie Detektiv Zafiris nur mit seiner Ermittlermoral ankommt.“ Der Tagesspiegel