Death Ex Machina, Gary Corby
Death Ex Machina, Gary Corby
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Death Ex Machina

Author: Gary Corby

Narrator: Erik Davies

Unabridged: 10 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/19/2015

Synopsis

A theatrical murder sends classical Athens into uproar It's the time of the Great Dionysia, the largest arts festival of the ancient world, held each year in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. But there's a problem: A ghost is haunting Athens's grand theater. Nicolaos and his clever partner in sleuthing (and now in matrimony), the priestess Diotima, are hired to rid the theater of the ghost so that the festival can begin. With the help of Theokritos, the High Priest of Dionysos, they exorcise the ghost publicly, while secretly suspecting that a human saboteur is the actual culprit. Their efforts to protect the theater fall short when one of the actors is found hanged from the machine used to carry actors through the air when they play the part of gods. It's quite a theatrical murder. As Nico and Diotima dig into the actor's past, they discover all was not as it seemed. There are enough suspects to fill a theater. As the festival approaches and pressure mounts on all sides, can they hunt down the killer in time? Or will they simply have to hope for a deus ex machina?

About Gary Corby

Gary Corby has long been fascinated by ancient history, finding it more exciting and bizarre than any modern thriller. He's combined the ancient world with his love of whodunits, to create an historical mystery series set in classical Greece. Gary lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. He blogs at A Dead Man Fell from the Sky, on all things ancient, Athenian, and mysterious.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Teck Wu

Really nicely put murder mystery set in 458 BCE Athens, with true to history characters and instances. I especially like how Nico divides the victim into 3 possible motive targets: the actor, the metic (plebeian), and the character Thanatos. I know you might not know what I mean, but once you start......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I purchased this kindle book at a great price (as well as the 6th in the series) as I thought it would be entertaining historical fiction exploring ancient Greece, and this was a good bet. I forgot I had a pork tenderloin cooking away whilst I was following the plot to its grand conclusion. Whoops,......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui

I discovered Gary Corby's ancient Greece novels after reading Wilbur Smith's 'Desert God' about ancient Egypt. It made me hunger for more on the lives of people before technology took over. Corby's five-installment series, based in the world's first democracy around 450 B.C., stars Athenian detectiv......more

Goodreads review by Colleen

Of the five so far, my least favorite. The mystery itself was overly convoluted and the book itself felt waaay overlong. Sometimes the book doesn't seem to know if it's light romantic comedy with like Nico and Diotima standing in for Bill Powell & Myrna Loy, or historical primer--occasionally it can......more

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