We both read this during our recent visit - an excellent first novel
The author does portray a real feeling of place and will wait until our 2009 visit(s) before reading the first sequel.
Another book I read whilst on Symi was �The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo� by Stieg Larsson
who unfortunately died suddenly in 2004 at the age of 50. It is the first of a trilogy with the next book due out in the UK in early 2009 but we think we saw many of the Danes who were at St. Nicholas over the last two weeks avidly reading a book by Larsson.
It is a very dark story indeed
but very well written and translated into English.