Reviewsįast and funny picaresque adventure … lots of excitement and a moving love story – Mail on Sundayĭavis’ vision of everyday life in the Roman Empire is superb. This is the one with the ‘Pompeii’s a place that intends to last’ joke.Īll royalties from the UK paperback are donated to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in memory of Margaret Sadler, a wonderful friend, who provided the part-time employment that enabled the author to survive financially while first struggling to get published. He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday. This is the story in which the author learned never to kill off useful characters – but in fiction there is always a solution. Against his better judgement, Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian, then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius. Although these people play prominent roles in other Falco mysteries. He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday. I read Lindsey Daviss SHADOWS IN BRONZE around the same time I read Steven. Against his better judgement, Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian, then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius.

Mourning Helena, who seems to want to abandon him, Falco sets off on a ramble through the Roman holiday spots, acquiring a goat on the Toe of Italy and accompanied around the Bay of Naples by his best friend Petronius – a member of the official police force who has somehow won himself a reputation as a ‘respectable family man’. 'Some men are born lucky, others are called Didius Falco. Shadows In Bronze: (Marco Didius Falco: book II): all is fair in love and war in this superb historical mystery from bestselling author Lindsey Davis (Falco). 'I was the new boy, so they saddled me with the worst jobs.'Rome, AD 71. Our hero, having discovered true love, has enough to worry him even before shadowy figures glimpsed late at night and a series of fatal accidents convince Falco and the Emperor that traitors are still conspiring and must be brought to book.

Falco shadows in bronze