The books

The original Greek-language edition of the mystery novel also published in English as “Hecatombe”.

Chief Inspector Werner Lorentz has solved every kind of serious crime in his career with the German Federal Criminal Police, until the moment three bodies are discovered, each marked with a number written by the killer’s own hand.

A race against time, a betrayal and a chance, terrifying revelation form the frame within which the Chief Inspector must prevent a hecatomb of victims. And the game begins…

The idea was born 32 years ago, and the first story was written! Admittedly, it took a very long time to fully mature. Now, 32 stories are waiting for you to read them.

Stories simple or intricate, everyday or unusual, funny or melodramatic, a little real or entirely figments of the imagination, or any combination of the above, are revealed to you one after another.

With evocative Greek titles such as «Η Βαφομαλλούσα», «Η Παξιμαδοκλέφτρα», «Το Κορίτσι που Έδιωχνε τα Σύννεφα», «Η Φόνισσα» and many more, each one is ready to welcome you into its world.

Because, as a wise old man once said: “Never let a story wait without hearing what it has to tell you!” …or something like that, anyway.

A Greek-language collection of short stories.

Chief Inspector Werner Lorentz has solved all manner of serious crimes during his career with the German Federal Criminal Police, until the moment three bodies are discovered…

On each one, a snapshot photograph depicting the victim shortly after their death. On the back of each photo, a number handwritten by the killer. On the 29-year-old mother, the number 108; on her 4-year-old daughter, 109; and on her 5-month-old son, 110!

Scattered around them on the floor are 28 photographs of people who lost their lives over the past four years in various parts of the country.

All numbered in no apparent logical order. Jumbled, just like the German Federal Police, as almost all of these murders have been recorded as accidents, serving as the chilling calling card of a ruthless killer!

A race against time, a betrayal, and a chance, terrifying revelation form the framework within which the Chief Inspector is called upon to prevent a massacre of victims.

And the game begins…

Thousands of years ago, public figures who failed to do their duty feared not only the strict laws and the enraged mob, but also the wrath of the Gods, especially when it was expressed through chthonic deities such as the Keres, the Harpies, and the worst of them all… the Erinyes!

Until now, we knew of their existence from the writings of Hesiod, Sophocles and Aeschylus, who also called them the Eumenides!

Until now… as if that tragic railway disaster, which cost the lives of 79 people, had awakened them and summoned them from the underworld to deliver justice.

This absurd explanation is, for the moment, the only one available to the head of the Criminal Investigation Service, Brigadier Angelos Karnezis. After all, it is what the evidence suggests.

Alecto was charged with punishing moral crimes. It was also the word written by that famous journalist and news commentator before he was brutally mutilated and bled out his last breath.

Tisiphone was the avenger of murderers. Her name was found carved into the torn flesh of the dead former director of the railway organisation.

Megaera punished infidelity. The former minister probably learned that well, for it was the only word he kept muttering as he died in the emergency room of an on-call clinic.

Coming soon…

…is coming