Scandal Takes a Holiday, Lindsey Davis
Scandal Takes a Holiday, Lindsey Davis
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Scandal Takes a Holiday
A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

Author: Lindsey Davis

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2017

Synopsis

Ancient Rome’s organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco.In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, Falco is forced to admit his real reason for being there. “Infamia,” the pen name of the gossip columnist for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing, and his fellow scribes have employed Falco to bring him back from his drunken truancy.Before long, Falco’s inquiries lead him into the world of piracy and the discovery of criminal traditions long believed dead. Is this the path toward finding Infamia? Why would pirates have kidnapped him? And if they have, will he be found alive?

About Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis is an English novelist of historical fiction and best known for her award-winning historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire, the acclaimed Marcus Didius Falco series and the Flavia Albia series. Her novels have won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and in 2011 the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for lifetime achievement. Born and raised in Birmingham, England, she read English at Oxford and worked for the civil service for thirteen years before becoming a writer.

About Simon Prebble

Simon Prebble, a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens

Read this book in 2014, and its the 16th outing of the marvellous Marcus Didius Falco series. This time we find Falco with his wife Helena Justina and little family, with their friend Petronius, on a holiday in Ostia. The real reason for this holiday is that the pen name of the scribe of the gossip co......more

Goodreads review by Mary

My idea of joy. Finding a book you missed somehow written by one of your favourite authors. That's how I felt on seeing this. I had bought it months ago when I finally got round to reading the.Falco.series and I read them in order but somehow missed this one, so yay I got to back to ancient Rome wit......more

Goodreads review by Xabi1990

7/10 en 2010. Parodia de la Davis sobre la prensa rosa entre la Roma Antigua que extrapolamos fácilmente al día de hoy. Palma un comentarista de estos asuntos y se ve envuelto Didio Falco cuando pretendía descansar en Ostia. Me hacían falta 3,5 estrellas. Le cae la cuarta porque -para no variar- es div......more

Goodreads review by Assaph

Gossip columnists and pirates make an interesting combination for Falco. Ostia is Rome's seaport, and like all seaports is a hotbed of shady dealings. Expect a review of Rome's literary scene (read, published gossip), a trip to the seaside (with family meals in taverna courtyards, and some light pira......more

Quotes

“This is the sixteenth Falco novel, and they have built up a large following. It is not hard to see why. They are amiable and unpretentious…The research that has gone into them allows the externals of Roman life to be presented in an evocative way. Yet the interior life of the characters remains reassuringly modern…Philip Marlowe in a toga.” Times Literary Supplement (London)

“Breezy…funny…The Rome of Davis’ imagination is licentious and entertaining in this light, bright series.” San Jose Mercury News

“The Rome of Vespasian and Titus comes to life in Davis’ entertaining sixteenth entry in her popular ancient historical series…While her deliberately modern colloquialisms (‘Go with the flow, man,’ Falco is told) take a little getting use to, they help maintain the light, arch tone.” Publishers Weekly

“First-person narration, sardonic humor, and lively characters add to this historical mystery with a contemporary feel.” Booklist

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