Lindsey Davis -  Scandal Takes a Holiday  ( Falco 16)
Marrated by Jamie Glover
Unabridged 64/44 mono
20% pars
no repost
Source:  CD
Length: 9 hrs +


Description:

The Rome of Vespasian and Titus comes to life in Davis's entertaining 16th entry in her
 popular ancient historical series (after 2003's The Accuser) featuring "finder" Marcus
 Didius Falco. The staff of the official government newspaper retains Falco when Diocles,
 the paper's gossip columnist, disappears while on a visit to Ostia. At the seaport, a 
cesspool of corruption, Falco follows up on rumors that pirates, supposedly put out of
 business by Pompey the Great decades earlier, are engaged in smuggling and a kidnapping
 racket. Utilizing his street smarts and well-earned cynical view of humanity, Falco moves
 in and out of dives and places of worship on the trail of a mysterious figure who acts as
 the middleman between the kidnappers and the victims' families. Disturbingly, some of the
 clues point to one of the detective's disreputable relatives. Longtime fans will enjoy 
the additional background on Falco's family, but first-timers, aided by a family tree and
 an introductory cast of characters, will be able to plunge right in. Unlike Steven Saylor
 in his Roma Sub Rosa series, Davis makes less use of the history of the time. While her 
deliberately modern colloquialisms ("Go with the flow, man," Falco is told) take a little
 getting use to, they help maintain the light arch tone that also distinguishes these fun
 novels from Saylor's more serious tales.

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