Christos Yannakenas was born in Athens in 1994 and since 2014 has been working in the field of book publishing. His first detective novel, titled “Blood in the Ashes,” was published by the Metaichmyo publishing house.

Brand new “I Wasn’t Human Anymore” by Osamu Dazai (Gutenberg) and “Nick’s Ride” by George Pelecanos in English.

Probably the detective Philip Marlowe, because he is smart and cruel at the same time, leaves nothing to chance and is always looking for the truth.

I would certainly enjoy a debate between Camus and Kafka on the absurd over a bottle of wine, but I would love to have a beer with author James Crumley, undeservedly unknown in Greece.

How risky it is to play with time in storytelling, but it can bear the sweetest fruit.

Chronicle of a Predicted Death by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

A very interesting and unexpectedly deep Pulp by Charles Bukowski and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, a book that made me fall in love with film noir and turn to writing.

Only at first glance, since Blood on the Ashes is a noir story, where the mystery is more “why” than “who”, since the lines between morality and justice are blurred, and everyone is equally guilty.

From the first moment I started writing, I knew that I wanted to talk about a very sensitive issue, on the one hand, because it was the only way to adequately express my concern, and on the other hand, because I wanted to give credit to the fact that you only found in detective novels.

Dimitris Kaniaris is a restless hero who seems lost, but in the end, he is the one who can turn the tide and blow the bank.