The Greek Connection

A Greek holiday abruptly interrupted by the murder of a Russian girl. The primary suspect is a Romanian man, and when journalist Stelian Munteanu happens to be nearest person to the crime scene, he soon gets pulled into the sordid tale where nothing is what it seems. A pursuit from Greece to Rome, Bucharest, Vienna and finally across France, Munteanu finds himself entering the dark world of diamond smuggling and stolen furs, where a mysterious ex-KGB agent knows it all.

Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1966, Bogdan Hrib. He is the author of the crime fiction series featuring Stelian Munteanu, a book-editor with a sideline doing international police work. Kill the General (2011), the fourth book in the Munteanu series was Hrib’s first novel translated into English won the Special Award of the Bucharest Writers Association (2012). The Greek Connection is Hrib’s second novel to be translated into English. Hrib is the co-founder of Tritonic Publishing Phillips and has been instrumental in bringing other Romanian crime writers into English publication.From 2008, Bogdan has been the editorial director of Crime Scene Publishing in Bucharest. He is also the vice-president of the Romanian Crime Writers Club (from 2010), and served as editorial counsellor of Flacara Magazine (2010-12). He is the director/organiser of the Mystery & Thriller Festival in Rasnov (2011-12), as well as the PR coordinator of the History Film Festival in Rasnov (from 2011).