All Virgil Colvin wanted in his retirement was sunshine, relaxation, and the good life he always dreamed about in Greece. What he got was murder, again.

A year has passed since devastating earthquakes and terrible murders wracked the quaint Greek island of Ithaca. Virgil Colvin, a retired Chicago homicide detective, is now at home on the island and more enmeshed than ever in the daily routines of his neighbors.

A vacation to the Peloponnese quickly turns from pleasure to terror as a world-renowned scholar is horrifically murdered. Trapped in a Byzantine fortress with a desperate killer, Colvin is forced to confront international assassins, committed ideologues, Greek tycoons, a tangled web of love and deceit, the politics of oil and gas on the Aegean floor, as well as his own fiancee.

Colvin never wanted another case. Sometimes you are forced to pair Murder with a Glass of Malvasia.