"Gripping; entertaining; insightful. A true literary and gastronomic treat."Paul William Roberts (author of Empire of the Soul)FRESH BLOOD Maria is a seventy-two year old Greek widow who has just been arrested. She has had a difficult life. Born into the Nazi occupation of her Aegean island, she grew up during the Greek Civil War and its aftermath in the impoverished fifties. Married off in her teenaged years to a rich man many years her senior, she...