Edna Osin, a jaded London columnist, is hauled over the coals for embarrassing the British and U.S. governments. He is told to investigate a Greek tycoon who is sponsoring the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens. Edna is also given an assistant, the lovely Jessica Du Rosse. The tycoon is after an influential EU post which no one wants him to get, but there is a terrible secret haunting him: rumors of his dead son in love with a Turkish Cypriot girl and a bastard grandson. To uncover the tycoon’s past, Edna and Jessica travel to Cyprus. Slowly, the pieces start to unravel, until they discover too much and the Greek tycoon wants them dead. The story climaxes aboard the tycoon’s luxury yacht off Malta.

With Isia’s Secret, Ray Stone takes the reader into the shadowy world of investigative journalism, exposes the fierce struggle between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, and what powerful men are prepared to do to keep power. I enjoyed the smoldering interaction between Edna and Jessica, which made the book come alive. Ray Stone’s characters are rounded and believable, and support well the flow of the story. An entertaining read.