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Loading... The Grove of the Caesarsby Lindsey Davis
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Tom-e | May 26, 2022 |   Meanwhile at a party held by Cluventius in the Grove of Caesars, his wife disappeared, and later her naked body is found. It is for Ursus, of the Seventh Cohort of Vigiles to investigate. Flavia Albia discovers that many woman have disapppeared from the Grove, over the decades, and that bodies of murdered women have been found there but their deaths not investigated. Obviously their in a serial killer in the area. Eventually Flavia is engaged as a professional advisor to the Cluventius family to find the killer of his wife. An enjoyable and interesting well-written historical mystery, with its likeable main character and secondary ones. A NetGalley Booj (  ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 | ) drmaf | Jun 21, 2021 | While I occasionally thought that the Flavia Albia series had perhaps passed its peak over the last few years, with this eighth volume Lindsey Davis has shown that she is still a force to be reckoned with as she has her heroine tackle a serial killer. This was a more straightforward historical whodunit like the early titles, with the politics during Domitian's reign more muted but a social commentary still very much in evidence. The apparently easy touch betrays a wealth of research that has gone into the writing of each mystery, and a bigger picture of Rome towards the end of the first century AD is beginning to emerge. I'm glad to see that the author has no intention of discontinuing the series as the ninth volume in the series, A Comedy of Terrors, has just been published. Luckily, it is already waiting on the shelf. (  ) passion4reading | Apr 19, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
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"In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth-a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim-in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, The Grove of the Caesars. At the feet of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost-always keep one's distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that direction. But right behind it-murder is the business of the Vigiles, best to leave them to it. Having broken the first rule more often than she'd like, it's no surprise to anyone when she finds herself breaking the second one. The public gardens named after the Caesars is a place nice girls are warned away from and when a series of bodies are uncovered, it seems that a serial killer has been haunting the grove for years. The case is assigned to one Julius Karus, a cohort of the Vigiles, but Albia is convinced that nothing will come of his efforts. Out of sympathy for the dead women and their grieving relatives, Albia decides to work with the vile Karus and bring the serial killer to justice"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Reading Lindsey Davis is like watching a skilled juggler at work, adding ball after ball while keeping up a lively patter. I have seldom seen more plot elements squeezed so adroitly into a historical mystery of moderate length. Flavia Albia’s husband is out of town because of a death in his family. Flavia is left to straw boss a building project at their home, managing a new dog, pursuing a serial killer with the dubious help of a chauvinistic cop, and investigating the provenance of some scrolls she found cached in a public garden. As usual, Davis manages to tuck in some wonderful details of life in first-century Rome. A working woman in Rome, Flavia Albia exhibits a strong, believable personality. If you like historical mysteries, you can’t do better than dip into Lindsey Davis. Don’t put it off, because her books should be read in order, and there are a lot of them. 4 stars. (