Books by Lindsey Davis
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review 1: Better than the Ides of April, the first in the Falco Next Generation series featuring Flavia Albia. Features all the things that makes these series so enjoyable: fun characters who spend a lot of their time gossiping cattily about other characters, witty dialogue and bawdy humo...
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review 1: Out in the Pontine marshes, something is stirring. Bandits murder their neighbours, terrorise their wives, and disappear silently into the reeds. When the murder spreads to Rome, and takes on something more like a Jack The Ripper guise, Falco is called in to investigate. Headi...
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review 1: I love Lindsey Davis work normally -- enjoyed her Falco series immensely -- but I couldn't get through this one. Had to return it to the library after around 200 pages. It was all in what I expected, I suppose. If I wanted to check out a history book on the English Civil War, ...
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review 1: No, it's not for me. I love the Falco novels and was keen to read more by the author. Thought the focus on a strong female character would be an added bonus.Actually, it's just a bit dull, the plot is thin, the context is over explained (you did your research, author, I see that....
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review 1: One of the better Falco books I have read to date. A murder mystery vacation in Egypt centering on the great library and its collection of scrolls.I miss Petro in this book and it seems Falco's father was forced into the story. Otherwise, Falco is his usual sarcastic self and H...
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review 1: Great book! Author Lindsey Davis does an excellent job, as usual, meshing Roman history and anthropology in an engaging romance novel. An added bonus is her wry observation on human nature, things like "People were lazy and wanted no trouble. They would knuckle under to any syste...
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review 1: Good while you're reading it, a disappointment viewed in retrospect. History buffs will love Lindsey Davis epic anti-romance of life during the harshest period of Renaissance England. Rebels and Traitors is weighty tome about the English civil war from the viewpoint of two surviv...
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review 1: There might be a good novel somewhere in this confused mess, but this isn't it. It's two stories which don't really fit together, except that Davis has shoehorned them into the same book -- a romance between a Praetorian Guard and a hairdresser to the imperial court, and the sto...