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It's a close-run thing. Two authors have made a speciality of brilliantly researched and highly atmospheric thrillers set in ancient Rome. Lindsey Davis is currently ahead on points, and the latest Falco thriller, A Body in the Bath House, is quite the most diverting entry in the series yet. Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder series will have to scrabble to maintain this level. The highly impressive sleight-of-hand that Davis is so adept at is just as much in evidence here as in such previous entries in the series as Ode to a Banker: while the sights, sound and smells of ancient Rome are conjured up with a truly pungent verisimilitude, Falco's modern sensibility never jars, and this Philip Marlowe of the ancient world remains a perfect conduit for the reader.
Cleverly extrapolating current fads, Davis demonstrates that even in AD 75 a passion for home improvement has gripped the Roman Empire. Falco is losing patience dealing with two cowboy builders who have been wreaking havoc on his bath house, but after the contract is finished, Falco and his father investigate hideous smells and find grisly human remains on the site. Simultaneously, in the primitive outpost of the Empire that is Britain, King Togidubnus is creating a spectacular new palace, but murderous accidents and corruption are bedevilling the project. Rome's Emperor Vespasian sends Falco to sort out the trouble, and this gives Falco a chance to escape from his dangerous feud with a Roman spy. Needless to say, as he penetrates to the heart of the mystery in Britain, his own life is (as usual) soon on the line with an implacable killer on his trail.
One would have thought that the law of diminishing returns would have kicked in by now, but this series goes from strength to strength. Taking up a Falco novel is an entrée into a world that is always colourful, always fascinating and always dangerous. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"This book is a delight for Falco fans and will strike a chord with anyone who has endured builders in their home." -- "Telegraph"
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A return to the excellent standard of her first books.,
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This review is from: A Body in the Bath House (Paperback)
I have read all of Lindesy Davis' books, and while I thought the early ones were genuinely entertaining, well researched and engrossing (detailed plot-lines and characters that are really appealing), I did find the 3 prior to "Body in the Bathhouse" disappointing. The charm and energy of the earlier ones was not there, and instead there was a feeling that she was almost going through the motions. Over-complicated plot, Falco and Helena's affair verging on the staid and uninteresting... This book, however, gripped me from the start. The characters are as believable (and incredible!) as ever, and taking the story to Britain works. Helena's brothers are in the limelight (the reader is,as usual, ready to kill Aelianus) and corruption flourishes. I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed "The Silver Pigs".
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Roman cowboys, British savages and a dodgy building site,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Body In The Bath House (Paperback)
Perhaps not the best of the Falco stories, but one in which the characters come more and more alive. Petro, despite only appearing for a few pages, is more appealing than ever, and the will-he-won't-he story with Maia is just one of many captivating sidelines to the main story. What starts out as a simple body in the bath house becomes much more when Falco makes his way to Britain to investigate wrongdoings at Fishbourne Palace. As ever, meticulously researched with locations that really bring the period to life. At the centre of it all, Falco and Helena always trying to make sense of everything around them. OK, so maybe not the best, but I still had to read it all in one sitting. Highly recommended. I only hope that one day Anacrites really gets what's coming to him.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as previous novels in the series,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Body in the Bath House (Hardcover)
I had been waiting for the next Falco book for what seemed ages, but although I enjoyed The Body in the Bath House, for me it didn't really come to up the author's previous high standards. In particular, I felt that the ending gave the impression that the requisite number of words had been written and a solution to the problem of the body in the title had better be found quickly! In spite of this it was good to meet Falco and his family again, and to see that he was aging along with the rest of us.
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