6/10/2023 0 Comments Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis![]() ![]() Civil order is in disrepair, while the rapidly growing city is ripe pickings for the ambitious gangsters moving in from Rome, whom Falco and his friend Petronius, have battled before. Solving and avenging the death quickly is important to placate the king. And what adventures! The murder victim is a disgraced henchman of King Togidubnus, an important ally of Rome. Davis skillfully braids references to Britain's future into her story of its past without ever diminishing the thrust of Falco's adventures. Falco needs all his celebrated intelligence to survive the ensuing problems. The discovery of a body jammed headfirst into a bar's well is enough to get Falco sent to the scene as an expert on unnatural death. ![]() In fact, almost everything about the growing community is mean, from its dark and dingy bars to the sprawling wharves and warehouses. Davis's 14th clever, witty adventure (after 2001's A Body in the Bathhouse) starring the suave Marcus Didius Falco, from Ancient Rome, finds the informer/investigator plying his talents on the mean and muddy streets of Londinium, Britannia, in A.D. ![]()
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