The Mykonos Mob by Jeffrey Siger

Author:Jeffrey Siger [Siger, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, police procedural, political, thrillers, international
ISBN: 9781464211508
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-02-14T17:24:49+00:00

Toni was quite proud of herself at having made it to her office precisely at four, just as she’d promised her client.

The waiter handed her an envelope. “An Albanian left it for you about an hour ago.”

She opened it and found a note.

I’m afraid to be seen with you in harbor. Please come to house.

He obviously had a better appreciation of the risks involved than she did.

She did not recognize the address he’d given for his home. Thankfully, he’d also drawn a map showing its location. That, she recognized: an alleyway between Little Venice and the bus station.

She dropped a couple euros on the table and wandered out into a crush of tourists and sidewalk hawkers busily culling prospective patrons into their tavernas. At her first opportunity, she escaped the harbor and plunged into the old town’s confusing maze of narrow alleyways and lanes.

Things always seemed calmer in here, even when the town was packed with tourists. Perhaps because when you’re wandering inside a labyrinth you’re never quite sure what might lie around the next twist or turn. It gave rise to hope that you’d run into something better than the mess you were caught up in at the moment.

No wonder her father called her an optimist. I really do need to call him.

When Toni first moved to the island, children played in the old town maze while black-clad grandmothers sat in doorways and on geranium-filled balconies, chatting with one another as they kept watch over their grandchildren.

These days, the only grandmothers you’d likely find here were stylishly dressed and keeping watch over the goods in their shops. The buildings were now far too valuable to serve as residences, and most had been leased to strangers or used as businesses for the buildings’ owners. As for the grandchildren and their games, today you’d mostly find them tucked away indoors like the rest of their digital generation.

She followed the sound of the birds. They congregated in the part of town where she was headed, high among the sturdy eucalyptus trees lining the wall encircling the town’s grade school. During the school year, these same birds sang backup to the sounds of children at play, but in summer they headlined the show.

Toni watched four boys of no more than twelve scoot over the schoolyard wall and head for the playground, basketballs in hand. Their chatter interrupted the birds, scattering some. Toni shook her head at how, even as young as twelve, they’d mastered the many uses for the word malaka in male company.

At a lane that once housed the post office, she turned. Now the building stood vacant, hung up for years in intra-governmental and family feuding over whom had the right to determine its future. The old town seemed to be aging rapidly, though you couldn’t tell that in tourist season. Much like an aging film star who’s neglected her underlying health, she could still fool the masses when outfitted in her finest party clothes and makeup.

But in off-season, or

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