Memento mori

Former international basketball player for Panathinaikos Konstantinos Sergos has an appointment with his son Alexander, but he does not appear. A little while later, Sergos receives an e-mail with a “hangman” (seven dashes for seven letters), the word game he used to play with his son when he was a little boy. Fearing that this is not a mere coincidence and not being able to find his son anywhere, Sergos calls the police and asks to speak to the only person he believes can help: the man who seems to have sent the e-mail, Petros Eleftheriadis, an officer at the Department of Homicides. Eleftheriadis tries to solve the puzzle in order to locate Sergos’s son, but also to find out who got him (Eleftheriadis) mixed up in the case. But just as the police officer finds Alexandros dying in his apartment, Sergos receives a new e-mail on his computer with four sketches: a melting candle, a bottle of wine, a carnation and a strange skull. Eleftheriadis realizes that Alexander’s disappearance was only the beginning. Another police thriller with mathematical puzzles in which our hero, Petros Eleftheriadis, is called upon to solve a case two years before the events that marked him in the novel In the Eye of the Bull.