Lindsey Davis
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''Like visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skullduggery crowd the pages.'' --Guardi
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''Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside . . . Davis's crimes are wickedly convoluted . . . real fun.'' --Time ''Davis serves up a huge cast of characters and colorful descriptions of daily life in Saturnalia . . . Sure to please readers with an affinity for ancient history.'' --Booklist
''The latest entry in Davis's long-running series boasts a straightforward mystery along with her usual double helping of historical detail.'' --Kirkus Reviews
Product Description
It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness--then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities, for Helena's brother Justinus has also vanished, perhaps fatally involved once more with the great lost love of his youth. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule, the search seems impossible and only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets...
About the Author
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.
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