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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Highly enjoyable! ( ) I really enjoyed listening to this. A strange combination of hard boiled detective/historical novel, set in Imperial Rome, it is part of a long running series. I have no idea how accurate the Roman part was, but it felt believable to me, with a lot of detail and research. I often find the readers of audio books grating and intrusive, but this one did a great job giving us the character of Marcus Didius Falco. He also did respectable female voices - I'm giving this audio book an extra star just for that! no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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... .No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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