Christos Markogiannakis’ first detective novel in the acclaimed Christophoros Markou series focusing on the psychology of crime and paying tribute to the genre’s golden era and film noirs

Fifth floor of the Athens Faculty of Law: Department of Criminology. Just before midnight, Anghelos Kondylis, a PhD candidate who has just landed from Paris, discovers the body of Professor Irini Siomou, a.k.a. the Viper, before he too is murdered.

The investigation of this double murder falls upon Christophoros Markou, a young police captain, a graduate of the same department, and an old acquaintance of the victims. With the help of former classmate, Vera, the policeman enters a maze where professional ambitions, secrets, compromises, cowardice, and vanity come together in an explosive mix.

With Greece on the verge of financial, political, and social chaos, Markou needs to discover who turned the building destined for the theoretical study of criminology into an actual crime scene and answer the question: Does the perfect crime exist? And in this case, could a criminologist be the perfect criminal?