Elena Bolonasi is a criminologist and philologist. She is a professor in the English-language Postgraduate Program in Forensic Psychology and teaches criminology, investigation and criminal law at a private school. Ernion’s Hill was awarded by the Panhellenic Writers’ Association. Her second novel, The Wolf Lives at Home, was recently published (Psychogios).

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and The Monogram by Odysseus Elytis.

Sherlock Holmes for his powers of observation, insight and dedication to solving cases.

Victoria Hislop, Claire Theodorou, Alkyoni Papadaki and Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf.

Reading The Chess Novel awakened my interest in learning chess.

“Killer” Papadiamantis.

Wanting to escape from the hellish orphanage, they fight for survival and team up. They vow to fearlessly follow their dreams and not become “wolf food”.

Behind closed doors hide the most heinous crimes. The protagonists will struggle to escape what they’ve been through, but “childhood will haunt them until it catches up.” Wounds and wounds are difficult to heal, and the conditions in which they find themselves as they grow up play a big role. A history of victimization does not always produce violent and criminal personalities. Whether someone ends up committing a crime is a multifactorial issue. Some heroes will succeed. The message of the book is optimistic. The vicious cycle of violence can and must be broken.

These children, boys and girls, experienced violence of all kinds, fear, rejection, emotional deprivation and rejection. They also fight these “wolves” in adulthood. Their experiences were decisive for their later interpersonal relationships. Some turn into monster partners, with the typical difficulty of showing, but also receiving love.

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