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REVIEW of The Grove of the Caesars (Flavia Albia #8) by Lindsey Davis
When Flavia Albia’s aedile husband Tiberius goes out of town to attend on his dying sister, Albia is left with the mess of sorting out his construction company’s building projects and finding a serial killer in the gardens that Julius Caesar donated to the people over a century ago. Apparently some wretched pervert has been…
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REVIEW of Pandora’s Boy, by Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia is hesitant to take a case recommended by her new husband’s ex-wife, but the death of fifteen-year-old Clodia is too intriguing to pass up. Along the way, her husband Tiberius goes undercover himself as the assistant of a lettuce shop whose products are renowned for their powers of fertility. Soon, Flavia’s investigation introduces her…
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REVIEW of The Graveyard of the Hesperides, by Lindsey Davis
When the aedile Tiberius Manlius Faustus unearths a set of old bones at a construction site, the informer Flavia Albia (the Roman version of a detective) finds herself involved in a murder investigation at a seedy bar called The Garden of the Hesperides. A barmaid who disappeared ten years ago seems a likely solution…until they…
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REVIEW of The Ides of April, by Lindsey Davis
If you’ve followed this blog, you’ll know that I read (and reviewed) all twenty novels in Lindsey Davis’ Marcus Didius Falco series. I was seriously bummed that Nemesis was the last one, and I may have even named my third child Marcus after Falco…. Imagine my delight at discovering that she has written a spin-off…
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REVIEW of The Course of Honor, by Lindsey Davis
After finishing all twenty of Lindsey Davis’ Falco novels, I’ve moved on to some of her other historical fiction. Yesterday’s rainy afternoon brought me to the end of The Course of Honor, an early novel by Davis. Vespasian, the miserly and curmudgeonly emperor who was in love with assigning Marcus Didius Falco thankless tasks, is…
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REVIEW of Alexandria & Nemesis, by Lindsey Davis
I’ve been putting off writing this post for quite some time because it marks a monumentally sad occasion. I have finished the Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis–all twenty books. There are no more. Ms. Davis recalcitrantly refuses to add any more to the Falco canon–but then I suppose it is the author’s prerogative…
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REVIEW of See Delphi and Die & Saturnalia, by Lindsey Davis
Having fully indulged her hostility toward building contractors, lawyers, and newspapermen in the previous books, Lindsey Davis now takes the opportunity in See Delphi and Die to lampoon the travel industry. While Aulus, Helena Justina’s stuffy younger brother, is traveling to Athens to study law, he runs across a suspicious death in the city of Olympia. A…
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REVIEW of The Accusers & Scandal Takes a Holiday, by Lindsey Davis
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REVIEW of A Body in the Bathhouse & The Jupiter Myth, by Lindsey Davis
Britain–the last place on earth that Marcus Didius Falco wants to visit. But when Emperor Vespasian asks him to conduct a cost analysis of a building site on the edge of the empire, our hero can hardly refuse. A Body in the Bathhouse shows the Didius family traveling en masse to the wilds of Britain:…
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REVIEW of One Virgin Too Many, and Ode to a Banker, by Lindsey Davis
Books 11 and 12 of the Marcus Didius Falco series continue to defy disappointment. In One Virgin Too Many, Vespasian rewards Marcus with middle class status at long last! Along with the new rank comes a new position, Procurator of the Sacred Poultry. The Didius family finds a source of endless laughter and derision as…
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