- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (21 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0727858181
- ISBN-13: 978-0727858184
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.7 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 662,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Claudia Seferius is broke. Skint. Borassic. Cleaned out. Bust, and on her uppers. So when her teenage stepdaughter Flavia is abducted, Claudia can't just throw money at the problem. The cash simply isn't there - since her husband died, his fellow businessmen have banded together to freeze her out of trade. And the frustratingly delectable Orbilio can't help - he's been placed under strict house arrest after a skeleton was found walled up in the house that's been in his family for three generations. Now, with the Games of Apollo, a series of festivals and frolics, feasting and tomfoolery, due to start in two days, Claudia has saddled herself with the job of playing tag with the kidnapper. Meanwhile, mysterious Egyptian cult the Brothers of Horus is growing in popularity with Roman citizens. But several of its young female members are beginning to experience strange disturbances...
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When her irritating stepdaughter disappears, Claudia Seferius is annoyed to say the least. With the games of Apollo beginning in two days time, Claudia can definately think of things she would rather be doing. But with a serious lack of money or help for that matter, she doesn't have much choice but to hunt the kidnapper herself. As usual, however, things don't quite go to plan...
Again, Marilyn Todd has succeeded in writing another amazing book about the intoxicating Claudia Seferius. The characters are, as ever, amazingly real and we, the readers, are shown tantalising glimpses of vulnerability in Claudia's tough personality. A fantastic book, well worth reading.
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Claudia sweeps through
24 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
Marilyn Todd's somewhat irreverant heroine, Claudia Seferius, is at her acid-tongued, fast-fighting best in this latest installment. Once more Claudia trips out of Rome after landing her infatuated slave Gaul Junius in a spot of trouble, hot-footing (vagrant Flea in tow) after her troublesome step-daughter Flavia who has joined a mystery Egyptian cult in an effort to garner some attention for herself. Meanwhile, the love of Claudia's life - though she'll never admit it - Orbilio (the dancing around each other relationship between herself and Orbilio is a delightful subplot throughout the series) is under house arrest after discovering a literal skeleton walled up in his atrium during some renovations. The chase after Flavia and the Egyptian Theme park some 63 miles outside Rome provides its usual strange cast of assorted murders and villains and Claudia charms her way through the dangerous lot with some style and aplomb to save the day.
If you read other Roman murder mysteries then Todd's heroine is a delightful step aside from the painstaking recreations of ancient Rome that seem to be an unwritten requirement. Indeed, Claudia Seferius is almost a twenty-first century party girl who has turned up two thousand years too early. There is a veneer applied throughout to the Roman lifestyle, but not too much attention is paid to fact and it doesn't detract in the slightest. References to Orbilio as a 'policeman' neatly encapsulate the style that permeates the series.
If you read other Roman murder mysteries then Todd's heroine is a delightful step aside from the painstaking recreations of ancient Rome that seem to be an unwritten requirement. Indeed, Claudia Seferius is almost a twenty-first century party girl who has turned up two thousand years too early. There is a veneer applied throughout to the Roman lifestyle, but not too much attention is paid to fact and it doesn't detract in the slightest. References to Orbilio as a 'policeman' neatly encapsulate the style that permeates the series.
Todd's Roman mysteries are a refreshing breeze through the genre and I must confess that I eagerly await each book. Dark Horse should prove as equally enthralling.
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