A family’s seedy underbelly is revealed in the third installment of the Captain Savva Series.

Alexandros Savva is still reeling from the shock that his daughter’s murderer and rapist has returned to Lesvos and now works alongside his wife aiding Syrian refugees. Pain and anger have brought him to the bottom of a bottle more than once. In the midst of his personal upheaval and Savva’s ongoing private crusade against international human trafficking agent Anthony Goldstein, Lesvos’ wealthiest resident dies in what appears to be a suicide.

Preferential treatment doesn’t stop with death for the island’s only billionaire, Meda Tocci. While smothering his own demons, Savva is ordered to treat the death as murder until proven otherwise.

What could then have brought this woman, surrounded by eight members of her family, to death at the end of the rope? The Tocci family is no ordinary bastion of society. Under each calm face and haughty exterior suppurating secrets fester. 

As Savva follows the trail of sinister deeds and buried vices, something far more dire lays just beyond the horizon, something he can’t foresee or stop.