The Accusers (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries (Paperback)) - Softcover

Davis, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446693294 ISBN 13: 9780446693295

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2004

Synopsis

- The Accusers was published in Mysterious Press hardcover (0-89296-811-7) in 4/04. This trade paperback edition will tie into Davis's new hardcover, Scandal Takes a Holiday, due from Mysterious press in 9/04
- Lindsey Davis's prior novel, The Jupiter Myth, appeared on London's Sunday Times bestseller list. It was published by Mysterious Press in hardcover in 9/03 and in trade paperback in 5/04.
- The creators of PBS's Inspector Morse television series are producing a series about Marcus Didius Falco, with scripts currently in development.
- First Lady Laura Bush is a big fan of Davis's international bestselling novels, and the author received the Crime Writers Association's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award in 199. Davis will be a guest of honor at Bouchercon 2004 in Toronto.

About this title

Review:

Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove he was murdered because suicide nullifies the prosecution's financial claims. Only the question is: which of the late Metellus' heirs poisoned him, since almost all of them had more than one motive? Falco finds himself and his wife Helena caught up once again in the dark side of Roman high society and all the interesting ways in which it is contiguous with the busy life of sordid streets.

Davis's books are always at their best when Falco, as our viewpoint, is finding out something he does not know about how things work; this is a good detective story partly because of the exposition of the Roman legal system and not in spite of it. It also helps that it is one of the Davis novels in which Falco over-reaches and finds himself distinctly out of his depth; he is one of the most attractive of historical detectives because he is not infallible. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"If Travis McGee traveled back in time to treacherous, civilized Rome in A.D. 72, he might be something like Marcus Didius Falco."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0446693294
• ISBN 13: 9780446693295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384