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The much loved, bestselling Falco series reissued with new jacket artwork
Lindsey Davis has written over twenty historical novels, beginning with The Course of Honour. Her bestselling mystery series features laid-back First Century detective Marcus Didius Falco and his partner Helena Justina, plus friends, relations, pets and bitter enemy the Chief Spy. After an English degree at Oxford University Lindsey joined the Civil Service, but became a professional author in 1989. Her books are translated into many languages and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her many prizes include the Premio Colosseo, awarded by the Mayor of Rome 'for enhancing the image of Rome', the Sherlock award for Falco as Best Comic Detective and the Crimewriters' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. For more information, please visit www.lindseydavis.co.uk.
One of the most entertaining books of the year
*Sunday Telegraph*
One of the best of the current writers in this field
*Sunday Times*
Wonderful, great fun all round
*Daily Telegraph*
Surely the best historical detective in the business
*Daily Telegraph*
One of the most entertaining books of the year * Sunday Telegraph
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One of the best of the current writers in this field * Sunday Times
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Wonderful, great fun all round * Daily Telegraph *
Surely the best historical detective in the business * Daily
Telegraph *
"I seem to be hearing about nothing but religious cults this week," says Marcus Didius FalcoÄthe Spenser of Ancient RomeÄearly on in this 12th entry in Davis's popular series. And indeed details of the weirder practices of Roman worship take up much (some might say too much) of the book's story. Falco himself has been rewarded for his lucrative work as a census taker with the dubious honor of looking after the Emperor's sacred geeseÄincluding cleaning up their droppings. Aulus, the younger brother of Falco's highborn lover, Helena, is trying to join a prestigious agricultural/fertility sect called the Arval Brothers. And several young girls, including Falco's own niece, are caught up in the selection of a new Vestal VirginÄwhich sounds in Davis's version like a children's beauty pageant straight out of the JonBenet Ramsey case. Falco has to put aside his goose-watching and reclaim his day job as private informer when (1) Aulus discovers a mutilated corpse at the Arval Brothers' bucolic retreat and (2) one of the leading VirginsÄwho tried to hire Marcus because she thought her family was trying to kill herÄdisappears. As usual, Davis shows us many ways in which Ancient Rome was both the same as and different from our own timesÄalthough the research isn't as seamlessly integrated as before. And Falco, while still an interesting mix of ambition and democracy, doesn't have that true ring of a real Roman coin he once had. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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