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Title details for The Lady of Sorrows by Anne Zouroudi - Available

The Lady of Sorrows

#4 in series

by Anne Zouroudi
Gildart Jackson
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Hermes Diaktoros visits a remote island which is home to an ancient icon famed for its miraculous powers. But something about the Virgin troubles him, and Hermes calls on an old friend to confirm his suspicions that the icon is a fake. Ready to hand the matter over to the authorities, Hermes intends to leave—until the island's icon painter is found dead at sea. Did he die of natural causes or by a wrathful hand? What secret is a dishonest gypsy keeping? And what haunts the ancient catacombs beneath the bishop's house?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Hermes Diaktoros

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 28, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781629233598
      • File size: 244608 KB
      • Duration: 08:29:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This audiobook, seventh in the mystery series featuring a beguiling fat man named Hermes (who may or may not be a god), is a mixed blessing. The Aegean backdrop is evocative, and echoes of Greek mythology enrich Zouroudi's clever plotting. Gildart Jackson is perfection in voicing Hermes and the other men on the island, where an icon of the Lady of Sorrows is said to work miracles. But the icon is not what she seems, and neither, at times, is Jackson. To voice a child or many of the woman, he just pitches his voice up to countertenor, which, to put it mildly, does not get the job done. Too bad, as the book has many charms, and so does the rest of Jackson's performance. B.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 6, 2014
      Zouroudi’s engaging fourth Deadly Sins mystery (after 2012’s The Doctor of Thessaly) takes Greek investigator Hermes Diaktoros, who belongs to no police force and whose concerns are “not with the enforcement of written laws, but with the administration of justice,” to Kalkos, where he visits the island’s miraculous icon, the Lady of Sorrows, and finds several oddities revolving around it and those responsible for its care. When Diaktoros suspects that the icon he sees in the church is not the original, his lover, art expert Kara Athanit, concurs. Add in Diaktoros’s suspicions about the death of aging fisherman and icon painter Sotiris; a theft of peaches by Pavlos, a gypsy; and a long-buried secret torturing bitter, crippled Nassia and her son, Agiris, and her daughter, Sambeca. With compassion and wisdom, Diaktoros resolves the various puzzles without invoking any laws. Diaktoros embodies a delightful combination of lusty appetites and thirst for justice.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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