Pam's Book 35: The Messenger of Athens

I bought this book for 99p at a little independent bookstore in Warwick, England. I bought it because it was 99p and it was a mystery and I thought maybe it would be good. It was okay. I can't say it made me want to read anything else she's written. A woman is dead. A mysterious figure turns up on her backwoods Greek isle to investigate her death. He wants to know not only who killed her, but who is responsible for her death, which could be something different altogether. He looks at the woman's husband, her lover, the corrupt chief of police. He finds out both who killed her and who is responsible for her death. He metes out his own kind of justice. The whole thing is kind of weird. Zouroudi keeps herself at a kind of distance from her characters, never getting too involved. She doesn't seem to identify with her characters any more than I do. I'm glad I only paid 99p for this book.