[books 2014] Daughter of Falco
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inulro31. Enemies at Home by Lindsey Davis
This is the second in Davis's follow up series to the massively popular Falco books (of which I've only read half) featuring Falco's adopted daughter, who has taken over his informing business.
Flavia Albia is called in to investigate the murder of a newly wed couple. Their slaves were at risk of being blamed and fled to sanctuary at the Temple of Ceres, which is all a bit of an embarrassment for the Powers That Be, so she is asked to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion.
It's a competently plotted and quite convoluted mystery, but it's mostly a series of digressions while Albia muses on the nature of family, of household, of slavery and how it cane take away humanity, but shouldn't. (Found on the streets of Londinium as a teenager and brought back to Rome as part of Falco's family, she sees things from a lot of different angles).
And the epilogue is - odd. I'm not quite sure where (if anywhere, I might be over-thinking this) Davis is going with it.
I liked it. Not as much as I like the actual Falco books, but it's good.
This is the second in Davis's follow up series to the massively popular Falco books (of which I've only read half) featuring Falco's adopted daughter, who has taken over his informing business.
Flavia Albia is called in to investigate the murder of a newly wed couple. Their slaves were at risk of being blamed and fled to sanctuary at the Temple of Ceres, which is all a bit of an embarrassment for the Powers That Be, so she is asked to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion.
It's a competently plotted and quite convoluted mystery, but it's mostly a series of digressions while Albia muses on the nature of family, of household, of slavery and how it cane take away humanity, but shouldn't. (Found on the streets of Londinium as a teenager and brought back to Rome as part of Falco's family, she sees things from a lot of different angles).
And the epilogue is - odd. I'm not quite sure where (if anywhere, I might be over-thinking this) Davis is going with it.
I liked it. Not as much as I like the actual Falco books, but it's good.
