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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) by Sarah Hawkswood (Sept/Oct 25)
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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) - SPOILER Thread - (Sept/Oct 25)
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May 22, 2022
Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂
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3.5★
I liked this novel, but given many of my GR friends love this book/series, I was expecting to enjoy it just a little bit more.
Silver pigs had me thinking;
but they were actually really heavy lead ingots that had been filled with silver & stolen from Roman Britain. Marcus Didius Falco, a wisecracking Roman imperial agent is on the case after (view spoiler) I will say the spoilered plot development took me com ...more
I liked this novel, but given many of my GR friends love this book/series, I was expecting to enjoy it just a little bit more.
Silver pigs had me thinking;
but they were actually really heavy lead ingots that had been filled with silver & stolen from Roman Britain. Marcus Didius Falco, a wisecracking Roman imperial agent is on the case after (view spoiler) I will say the spoilered plot development took me com ...more
The first in the Ancient Rome whodunnit series with Marcus Didius Falco, ex-soldier and professional informer/investigator, drawn into working for the emperor Vespasian, and his son Titus, in AD 70, to solve the organised fraudulent theft of bars of silver (pigs) coming from the British mines to Rome, and to solve the related murder of a 16-yr old girl.
Well-written and plotted, the author clearly wants to educate us about life in Ancient Rome (and Britain, where Falco visits again after serving ...more
Well-written and plotted, the author clearly wants to educate us about life in Ancient Rome (and Britain, where Falco visits again after serving ...more
Meh although I suspect the series gets better.
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