Detective Kaldis Greek Island Mysteries, Books 1–7

Andreas Kaldis #1-7

by Jeffrey Siger

Sun, sea . . . and murder.

Detective Andreas Kaldis catches killers. It’s the one thing he was born to do — which is why Athens’ thirty-four-year-old hotshot homicide detective has just been “promoted” to police chief of Mykonos, chief dog-and-cat protector of Greece’s most glamorous holiday island.

He wasn't sent to paradise to fight crime.
He was sent there to be forgotten.

Then a terrified workman opens a burial crypt in a remote hillside church. Island crypts hold the bones of the long dead. This one holds a body — and someone has been keeping the church’s candles lit.

Somewhere in Greece, a diplomat’s daughter has gone quiet on her backpacking trip. The season is about to begin. Andreas’s exile is over.

Seven investigations carry him from Mykonos’s all-night glamour to the corridors of Athenian power, a monastery on Patmos, the pilgrim island of Tinos, the vendetta country of the Mani and the slopes of Delphi — with Tassos Stamatos, the old bulldog homicide investigator of the Cyclades, and young Yianni Kouros at his side.

Included in this box set:

•  Book 1:  Murder in Mykonos
•  Book 2:  Assassins of Athens
•  Book 3:  Prey on Patmos
•  Book 4:  Target: Tinos
•  Book 5  Mykonos After Midnight
•  Book 6:  Sons of Sparta
•  Book 7:  Devil of Delphi

2012 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 13, 2026

About the author

I am an American living on the Aegean Greek island of Mykonos. A Pittsburgh native and former Wall Street lawyer, I gave up my career as a name partner in my own New York City law firm to write mystery thrillers that tell more than just a fast-paced story. My novels are aimed at exploring serious societal issues confronting modern day Greece in a tell-it-like-it-is style while touching upon the country's ancient roots.

Some Mykonian friends told me if I started sprinkling murders with a message across my adopted country's tourist paradises, I'd likely be banished, if not hung. No one was more amazed than I when my debut novel, Murder in Mykonos (a sort of Mamma Mia setting for a No Country for Old Men story), became Greece's #1 best selling English-language novel (and a best-seller in Greek, as well).

As of September 2016 I have eight Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis novels out there and receive no more than the customary number of death threats. I'm diligently trying to improve my percentage in that regard with posts about Greece each Saturday on the Murder is Everywhere blogsite I share with nine renowned mystery writers from around the world.

It's been a remarkable journey, punctuated most notably by The New York Times selecting the fourth in my Andreas Kaldis series (Target: Tinos) as one of its five "picks for the beach" while calling the entire series, "thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales;" Left Coast Crime's nomination of the fifth in the series (Mykonos After Midnight) in 2014 as Best Mystery in a Foreign Setting; a 2016 Barry Award Best Novel Nomination for my seventh in the series (Devil of Delphi); starred reviews and official government citations; and this quote from Fodor's Greek Islands Travel Guide under a section titled "Mykonos After Dark," which colleagues say I should consider the equivalent of winning an Oscar: "Some say that after midnight, Mykonos is all nightlife—this throbbing beat is the backdrop to Jeffrey Siger's popular mystery, Murder in Mykonos."

My work is published in the US, UK, Germany (German), and Greece (Greek and English), and I'm honored to have served as Chair of the National Board of Bouchercon, the world's largest mystery convention, and as Adjunct Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College, teaching mystery writing.

Reviews

[Faye Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very slow start but he did find his storyline and he took off. By book 7, Mr Siger had made it to the top authors of my list. I ordered the rest of his Det Kaldis Greek Island Mysteries. Having lived on another Greek island, I appreciated how he depicted the Greek people. I found him to be spot on. Forget the bad guys in my last sentence. I certainly never knew those kind of people. His description of the people, Mykonos, and Athens was excellent. By the end of the series, I felt I knew the primary characters. BRAVO Mr Siger.

[Joan Ahmed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding

If you like Louise Penny or Donna Leon mysteries you will love these thrillers set in Greece. Chief Inspector Kaldos is sexy and smart and the plots are full of twists.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice Surprise

I've never heard of this author before. I decided to take a chance on reading them while I was waiting for another author's book to drop and I'm so glad I did.

It's a wonderful series and a refreshing change from the usual america-centric detective novels.