Back to the Start
Volume 9
A Case for Costas Haritos
Volume 9
Published by Diogenes as Zurück auf Start
Original Title: Titloi telous

The German-Greek Andreas Makridis is found hanged in his Athens apartment. A short while later, a letter surfaces claiming that it was murder. Signed: The Greeks of the 1950s. What looks like a bad joke turns out to be deadly serious: further murders follow.
Who’s behind this ominous organisation? Crazy old individuals demanding a return to the values of days gone by? The new case leads Costas Haritos back and forth across a city, which is becoming more dangerous with every passing day. And the Commissioner discovers this on a personal level too: his daughter Katerina is attacked by a neo-Nazi of the Golden Dawn – in the city centre, in broad daylight.

Crime Fiction, Contemporary Literature
368 pages
2015

978-3-257-06925-9
Petros
Markaris

Petros Markaris, born in Istanbul in 1937, is a playwright and creator of a TV series who worked as an author with Theo Angelopoulos, and translated the works of German dramatists like Brecht and Goethe. He began writing crime novels in the mid-1990s, and became an international success. His accolades include the ›Pepe Carvalho Prize‹, the ›Goethe Medal‹ and an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki. Petros Markaris lives in Athens.

Photo: © Regine Mosimann / Diogenes Verlag

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Petros Markaris
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The Violence of Failure
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Quotes

Harald Eggebracht
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
»Petros Markaris depicts Greece’s current situation as an exciting tragicomedy.«
Manuela Soboda
Kleine Zeitung, Graz
»Back to the Start is once again a novel of society, a genre portrait, wonderfully narrated and wide awake in its observation of Hellas’ hubris.«
Axel Knönagel
Focus, Munich
»Back to the Start is not just a crime novel but also a portrait of Greek society as told through a police investigation.«