Enemies at Home: A Flavia Albia Novel Flavia Albia Series, 2 Paperback 1250068487 9781250068484 Lindsey Davis

from Mothwing

I liked the last Flavia Albia mystery and this one was no exception. Even though the solution to the crime is not entirely unexpected the characters really grow on me. The outlook that slaves in Rome could expect is expectedly bleak and the characters react as unsympathetically as one might expec...

from quiBee

Murder and theft in Domitian's Rome. Obviously the slaves did it, but did they? Flavia Alba looks into the mystery and Davis does the job competently enough, but with so many echos of her parents, Falco and Helena, that it just made me them very much. A quick read.

from Eyejaybee

This book represented the second outing for Flavia Albia, private investigator from first century Rome. Flavia is an engaging protagonist, and clearly has investigative skills in her DNA as she is the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, whose exploits Davis had recounted in twenty previous novels. T...

from drmaf

Lacks the verve and sharpness of the original Falco series. Flavia Albia is just not as interesting a protagonist as her adoptive father. She especially lacks Falco's ability to make lots of interesting enemies, always a highlight of his stories. Curiously, this probably reflects, intentionally o...

from JalenV

Enemies at Home refers to how Romans considered their slaves. Of course a slave who murdered the master would be executed. The same fate awaited slaves who didn't rush to the master or mistress' aid if someone was trying to kill him/her at home. In this mystery, some of the murdered couple's slav...