"Many colleagues as well as ordinary citizens, with whom I come in contact and discuss various shocking cases that I handled and experienced during my long journalistic career, urged me to record them, to capture them in a book. These are experiences of a lifetime.

Within the pages of the book, the reader will find the heinous crimes that occupied public opinion for days or even weeks, due to the terrifying interest they presented. These are the crimes that - as the title suggests - shook Greece.

Of course, all the cases I describe are completely true. They do not contain fictional scenes or hypothetical details. Nor did I try to present them more tragic than they were. I recorded what I saw and experienced, always reporting from the scene where the events took place.

The brutal murders and other crimes included in the book were recorded with special care, without exaggeration, without a trace of distortion of the real incidents. I am sure that many of these cases will also serve the historian of the future, due to their authenticity and faithful recording of real events and nothing else." P.S.

A toxic addict is found crucified in a forest.

A businessman is brutally murdered in his apartment.

Unknown assailants shoot a Dutchman in a neighborhood of Athens.

A little girl disappears from her home.

A fire in a room reveals a body tied to the bed.

Five crimes and five police officers with one and only goal: To solve them.

Vangelis Giannisis becomes the first Greek author to closely collaborate with the officers of the Homicide and Personal Freedom Crimes Department to present five true stories taken from the Homicide files. Gruesome crimes come to life in the eyes of the reader, in a journey into the depths of five cases that shook the country.

This is one of the most complex cases in the criminal chronicles of modern Greek state. The case is still known today as that of the "evil mother-in-law" or the "poor Athanasopoulos" or the "crime in Harokopou" or the "dismembered body in Kifissos."

The book "Poor Athanasopoulos?" is a crime non-fiction novella by Tasos Theofilou dealing with the judicial aspect of the murder and dismemberment case of contractor Mimis Athanasopoulos with main suspects Fula Athanasopoulou and her mother Artemis Kastrou.

The narration begins on Tuesday, February 16, 1932, two days before the trial begins, until November 1, 1932, eight months after the death sentence for the two main suspects Fula Athanasopoulou and her mother Artemis Kastrou, when the clemency request is made.

The narrator is journalist M. Gorgos and the story unfolds through the reports he sends for publication to his editor-in-chief. M. Gorgos is not a real person but a composition of Petros Pikros, E. Thomopoulos, possibly Ven. Zerveas and other anonymous, experienced or lesser-known journalists, who record in the present tense the exciting daily life of interwar Greece.

The selection of information and descriptions was not made in terms of academic or research objectivity. The selection was not even made in terms of journalistic objectivity. It was made with the aim of shedding light on aspects of a case that, due to institutional misogyny, led to the death sentence and eternal social humiliation of two innocent women.