In this book, the Blue Socks Gang — that’s us — tries to find out who killed Vangelis (and in the end, we do find the culprit). Do you think it’s easy to catch a murderer?
Miranda Vatikioti was born in Athens in 1982. She began writing at a very young age and has continued to do so ever since. Alongside her literary pursuits, she studied theatre and dance.
She is the author of the children’s mystery novella The Magic Clock (K. M. Zacharakis Publishers, 2006), which was nominated for the State Children’s Literature Award by the Directorate of Letters of the General Directorate of Contemporary Culture of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
She has also published the crime novels The Four Seasons of Mr. Ananias (Pikramenos Publishers, 2016) and The Secret of the King of the Cranes (Pikramenos Publishers, 2017).
To track them down, we did everything imaginable: we learned unfamiliar words, solved complex maths problems, almost ended up marrying a university student, and nearly lost Christoforos in a sewer. We interrogated people, trusted the prophecies of trees rather than stars, learned about legal frameworks, had our treehouse collapse on our heads, and used advanced technology — all while following clues given to us by a girl with rabbit ears.
And if none of this makes much sense, that’s normal, because so many things happened in this adventure that only by reading the book in your hands will everything become clear. One thing, however, is certain: Vangelis is alive. And that is the most important thing of all. Vangelis is alive.