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Another great outing with Marcus Didius Falco, back on track in Rome after his last adventure in Spain.
This time, the new father is in pursuit of a serial killer who strikes during public holidays and games, abducting and butchering young women and disposing of their body parts in the Roman aqueducts. Falco and his new business partner and old friend Petronius are standing near a clogged public fountain when a worker unclogs it - and out pops a severed hand.
At first their budding investigation ...more
This time, the new father is in pursuit of a serial killer who strikes during public holidays and games, abducting and butchering young women and disposing of their body parts in the Roman aqueducts. Falco and his new business partner and old friend Petronius are standing near a clogged public fountain when a worker unclogs it - and out pops a severed hand.
At first their budding investigation ...more
This was a really enjoyable book in the Falco series. Back from Spain with Helena and baby Julia, Falco becomes involved with a serial killer who is murdering women after the Games and leaving parts of the body in the water around Rome, so parts end up in the aqueducts. This causes something of a panic in Rome, mainly with people concerned about the state of the water, than the fates of the ladies going missing.
Falco finds himself aided in his quest by his old friend, Petro, whose wife has throw ...more
Falco finds himself aided in his quest by his old friend, Petro, whose wife has throw ...more
A more grisly than usual Falco whodunnit, as usual with a lesson in Roman social history from the author, this time about Rome's magnificent water supply system.
The GR blurb:
'In vino veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horror, as Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand. Small and evidently female, the han ...more
The GR blurb:
'In vino veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horror, as Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand. Small and evidently female, the han ...more
Gruesome crimes but Falco, his family and Petro are able to cope with it.
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