Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780312945954 ISBN: 0312945957 Label: St. Martin's Minotaur Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: April 29, 2008 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Release Date: April 29, 2008 Sales Rank: 31464 Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
It’s 76 A.D. during the reign of Vespasian and the Roman festival of Saturnalia is getting underway. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. But not for “informer” Marcus Didius Falco. His job is to uncover unwelcome truths and deal with sensitive situations, frequently at the behest of the imperial government. So when a general’s famous female conquest escapes from house arrest—leaving a horrendous murder in her wake—Falco is on the case. If finding a fugitive isn’t enough of a Zeus-like headache, Falco’s wife Helena Justina’s brother has also gone missing. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule and merriment, the search seems impossible. And Falco seems to be the only one who notices that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets…
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Rating: - Falco at the festival
Falco is once again stuck in the middle of a search for a missing person (Veleda, the priestess character from an earlier book), and also, by almost a sideline, a grisly murder. All of the action takes place during the seven day festivel of Saturnalia, when Romans do a lot of unusual things, and even slaves get to act as masters for a bit. The book has the usual mix of the regular loons and misfits, with a few new ones thrown in for good measure. No one is ever going to mistake this series for great ... Read More
Rating: - Saturnalia
1st book came with a printing flaw but received the replacement book within 3 days... and I was even notified when the book I returned was received by you! Thanks Amazon... I have never had a complaint about the services I have received from you!
Rating: - Falco 18, and an old acquaintance is on the run in Rome
This is the eighteenth and currently (June 2008) most recent in a series of excellent detective stories set in Vespasian's Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
It is AD76, at the start of the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. Falco finds out that a figure from his past - and more particularly, his brother-in-law's past - has been brought to Rome to play the supporting role ... Read More
Rating: - Take a Roman Holiday
The most surprising aspect of this almost perfect mystery is that it is the eighteenth in the Marcus Didius Falco series. Some series lose focus. Some fictional heroes are useless once matrimony and children occur. Happily for the reader, that is not true here.
An enemy of Rome is on the loose, a wild priestess of unconquered Germany. Falco knows her from one of his foreign missions and is one of the few men in Rome who could recognize her. Falco has been ordered by the Emperor to track ... Read More
Rating: - good Lindsey Davis
This is a good historical Roman whodunnit. The plot is a bit more complex than some of Davis's previous books.
- Falco at the festival
- Falco 18, and an old acquaintance is on the run in Rome
