By Stav Sherez

Humans used to come back to the small Greek island of Palassos for the ancient ruins. Now they arrive to take medications and get together all evening. however the terrible ritual homicide of a boy within the grounds of an outdated monastery brings again thoughts of 2 related deaths within the mid-1970s, and of a mysterious cult who as soon as dwelt within the island's inside, stories the island has attempted challenging to put out of your mind. As Nikos, the police leader who has been persuaded again to his domestic island for the ultimate years of his occupation, starts his research, Brits arrive at the island: the bestselling crime author Kitty Carson, on a holiday from the pressures of labor and her strained marriage, and Jason, an aspiring author with a mystery of his personal. whilst a moment physique is chanced on - additional endangering the island's profitable vacationer exchange - those 3 characters are thrown jointly, because the grotesque secrets and techniques of the earlier start to emerge. Brilliantly paced, and that includes a memorable solid of characters, The Black Monastery is a blistering portrait of paradise long past incorrect.

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