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Recommended crime books (1)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into crime here are some crime books from Greece for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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The Murderess

The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis EN

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The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad. Set on the dirt-poor Aegean island of Skiathos, it is the story of Hadoula, an old woman living on the margins of society and at the outer limits of respectability. Hadoula knows about herbs and their hidden properties, and women come to her when they need help. She knows women’s secrets and she knows the misery of their lives, and as the book begins, she is trying to stop her new-born granddaughter from crying so that her daughter can at last get a little sleep. She rocks the baby and roc... continue