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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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REVIEW of Poseidon’s Gold, Last Act in Palmyra, and Time to Depart, by Lindsey Davis
Books five through seven in the Marcus Didius Falco series, by Lindsey Davis, continue to captivate my attention just as much as the previous four did. Once again, Lindsey Davis uses each novel to focus on a particular aspect of Roman society, providing a humorous narrator, a clever whodunit, and an unconventional love story to…
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REVIEW of Venus in Copper and The Iron Hand of Mars, by Lindsey Davis
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REVIEW of Shadows in Bronze, by Lindsey Davis
In Shadows in Bronze, the second book of the Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis, Marcus goes undercover to find out more about the conspirators whom he thwarted in the previous novel. As they explore the towns of the Italian countryside, Marcus and his nephew Larius become door-to-door salesmen, offering lead pipes at a…
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REVIEW of The Silver Pigs, by Lindsey Davis
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