Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries (Audio): Ode to a Banker: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Audiobook)

from gypsysmom

I really like mysteries set in non-modern times because the sleuths can't rely on things like fingerprints or DNA to solve the crime. In this one the detective Falco has to find out who murdered a wealthy banker/publisher while he was reading in his library. Although there are lots of possibiliti...

from wdwilson3

A middling installment in the Falco series, with fun insights in the Roman publishing and banking businesses and a Christie-like denouement with all the suspects in one room. Add to the mix the usual amount of Falco's domestic distractions and you have the Lindsey Davis formula. Enjoyable, but no...

from nolak

When Falco goes poetic, he is offered publication, but the publisher is murdered. Was it an angry writer, one of his customers in his banking business or someone in his family? The answers will take you on a romp through Roman oratory and banking, with a satisfactory ending.

from Tanya-dogearedcopy

This is the twelfth installment in the historical fiction series set in Rome during Vespasian's reign (70s AD.) Falco is a palace informer who acts as a sort of early prototype of a detective or investigator. Davies incorporates her research with a little bit of humor into her stories; and in thi...

from NickHowes

In the 12th Falco novel, ancient Rome's private informer is hired by the vigils...who have better things to do...to investigate the murder of a publisher. The publisher, it seems, turns out to have been a banker, as well, which funded his publishing business. Plenty of suspects, many related to t...