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Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove he was murdered because suicide nullifies the prosecution's financial claims. Only the question is: which of the late Metellus' heirs poisoned him, since almost all of them had more than one motive? Falco finds himself and his wife Helena caught up once again in the dark side of Roman high society and all the interesting ways in which it is contiguous with the busy life of sordid streets.
Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove he was murdered because suicide nullifies the prosecution's financial claims. Only the question is: which of the late Metellus' heirs poisoned him, since almost all of them had more than one motive? Falco finds himself and his wife Helena caught up once again in the dark side of Roman high society and all the interesting ways in which it is contiguous with the busy life of sordid streets.
Davis's books are always at their best when Falco, as our viewpoint, is finding out something he does not know about how things work; this is a good detective story partly because of the exposition of the Roman legal system and not in spite of it. It also helps that it is one of the Davis novels in which Falco over-reaches and finds himself distinctly out of his depth; he is one of the most attractive of historical detectives because he is not infallible. --Roz Kaveney
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This is the 15th novel in the popular Falco series. The hero, Marcus Didius Falco, is an infomer in first-century Rome, married out of his class to the daughter of a Senator. This plot device allows the author to maintain a certain realism, as Helena Justina has access to households into which her husband would not be admitted. Through the extended families of both Helena and Marcus Didius, the reader is introduced to characters at all levels of Roman society, from the washerwoman on the corner to the residents of the imperial palace. In this adventure, Falco is asked to investigate the mysterious death of a supposed suicide, the former senator Rubirius Metellus, found guilty of corruption not long before his demise. At first, the case seems straightforward. By killing himself, Metellus freed his heirs from the burden of compensation for his misdeeds. But as Falco begins to probe, the death starts to look more sinister. As almost every member of the Metellus family is suspected in turn of the murder of the patriarch, the reader is kept involved not only by the twists of the plot, but the perenially cheerful reporting style of Marcus Didius. Fans of Lindsay Davis will not be disappointed by this novel, and new readers will enjoy stepping into a world which is half-historical, half imagined, and wholly realized. (Kirkus UK)
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