PI Alex Mavros must navigate politics, corruption, and old-world vendettas when a crewmember disappears from a WWII film shooting in Crete.

Movie star Cara Parks has arrived in Greece to film a WWII epic about the Nazi occupation of Crete. The presence of the film crew has been stirring up long-buried resentments among the islanders, and when Cara's personal assistant disappears, PI Alex Mavros is called in to navigate a missing persons investigation amid a tinder box of old-world grudges. But before he can find the missing assistant, a fuse is lit.

A German resident who'd been consulting for the film is found hanged to death. Was it suicide, or murder? As Alex pursues both cases, he finds himself drawn into a far-reaching conspiracy that spans generations.