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Leta Serafim

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Acclaimed writer, novelist, and playwright Leta Serafim was a journalist at the Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau before moving to Greece, where she taught art and illustrated books. On her return to the U.S., she wrote features for The Boston Globe before turning to fiction, where her Greek Islands Mystery series has captivated readers and mystery fans worldwide. She is also the author of the historical novel To Look on Death No More, the children's book Molly Saw a Bear, and the new play Requiem, a two-act drama about Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. She teaches creative writing in the Boston area and continues to spend her summers in Greece.

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	The Devil Takes Half 3.74 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Devil's Idle (A Greek Islands Mystery Book 2) 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nameless Dead (Inspector Patronas' Greek Island mystery Book 5) 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Devil's Farm 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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TO LOOK ON DEATH NO MORE

In autumn of 1943, a lone allied soldier parachutes into Greece. His stated goal: to build an airstrip for the British. Brendon O’Malley is an Irishman, and he soon discovers that fighting the Nazis is not the same as embracing the British, who have seriously misled him about his mission. Wounded during the drop, he’s set upon and robbed by a seventeen-year-old girl, Danae, and her little brother, Read more of this blog post »

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Leta Serafim answered Leta Serafim's question: The series as a whole has taken readers across multiple islands and facets of Greek society. What new sides of Greece—culturally, politically, or geographically—did you want to explore specifically in The Nameless Dead? Specifically, the migrant crisis and its impact on Greece. I was in Mytilene when the crisis began, and what I saw there stayed with me. We rode a bus and there were Syrian refugees trudging along on either side of it. At first there was just scatter See Full Answer
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Leta Serafim answered Leta Serafim's question: One thing I loved is how the book lets us feel the texture of everyday Greek life—the food, the humor, the small frictions—even while dealing with very contemporary political and social issues. How intentional is that balance between atmosphere and plot for you? It is very intentional. I strive in my books to recreate Greece as I experienced it. It’s the backdrop—like the setting of a play—and then the drama begins.
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Leta Serafim liked an answer from Leta Serafim: What’s the best thing about being a writer? The best thing about being a writer is when something unexpected emerges, a bit of poetry you didn't know you had in you. Leta Serafim
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Leta Serafim liked an answer from Leta Serafim: How do you deal with writer’s block? When I get writer's block, I try and trick myself by putting the book aside and writing something else. One year, it was Christmas cards. After I wrote notes to about a dozen people, I was able to get back to work. Leta Serafim
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“Judging by what I’ve seen, human beings are the devil’s own, his one true family. There’s nothing divine about us. We’re just a bunch of animals, greedy animals who harm their own kind, harm them to possess what they have, harm them to own. The only thing special about us is, we don’t die off when we should. We adapt. We endure. That’s our single greatest attribute as a species … our staying power. In our tolerance of misery, we are quite versatile.”
― Leta Serafim, The Devil Takes Half

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