When journalist Tom Pickering arrives on the beautiful Greek island of Mythos to meet up with Lucy, his on-off girlfriend, an environmental blogger who has tipped him off about a great story, Lucy has disappeared. And a body, presumed to be that of a political activist from the early 1970s, has turned up in a bridge being demolished to make way for the new highway bringing tourism to an unspoiled part of the island. Tom, looking for love and a good story, finds himself caught up in a vortex of political intrigue, corruption and murder. Will Tom find the woman he loves? Who is the body in the bridge? Will the killers be brought to justice? Signs of a Struggle is a political crime novel, set against a backdrop of a century of modern Greek history, embedded in which is the search for love and the reclaiming of identity.