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Poor narration quailty
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3 out of 5 stars
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Usually love Simon Prebble as narrator BUT....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyman's Rome
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In first century A.D. Rome, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations, so in A.D. 77, Falco and his wife Helena Justina travel to Alexandria, Egypt. Before long the Librarian of the great library is found dead and Falco quickly finds himself on the trail of dodgy doings, malfeasance, and the lowest of the low - book thieves! As the bodies pile up, it's up to Falco to untangle this horrible mess and restore order.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Fresh from a trip to far-flung Londinium in Britain, Falco needs to reestablish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of two powerful lawyers. The senator is convicted but then dies, apparently by suicide. It may have been a legal move to protect his heirs; Falco is hired to prove it was murder. As he shows off his talents in the role of advocate, Falco exposes himself to a tangle of upper-class secrets and powerful elements in Rome's legal hierarchy that may have unintended - if not fatal - consequences.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Marcus Didius Falco is about to get involved in a nasty noir crime, involving gangsters, gladiators, and romance. For Falco, a relaxed visit to his wife Helena's relatives in Britain suddenly turns serious. He and his family are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to Roman crime magnates operating in London, but he was also close to King Togidubnus. So when he is discovered dead, stuffed headfirst down a well, a tricky diplomatic situation develops that Falco must defuse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Usually love Simon Prebble as narrator BUT....
- By K. Hemphill on 08-07-18
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Nemesis
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- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father have disappeared. They had an old feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen, the Claudii, who terrorize the neighborhood. When a mutilated corpse turns up, Falco and his friend Petronius investigate. But just as they are making progress, the Chief Spy, Anacrites, snatches the case away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyman's Rome
- By Jeanette Beth Means on 12-13-10
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A Body in the Bathhouse
- A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery, Book 13
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache: building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor. Should Falco follow the culprits to remote Britannica? Despite the British weather (damp), the inhabitants (barbarians), and the wine (second-rate), Falco takes his whole family and goes. In veritas, Falco has another, secret reason for this exodus.
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2 out of 5 stars
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long, tedious, and boring
- By Paul on 10-18-17
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Ode to a Banker
- A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery, Book 12
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- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on papyrus. Hell hath no fury like an author scorned, and when Chrysippus turns up murdered - in the library, no less - it's poetic justice. Appointed the official investigator, Falco's soon up to his stylus in outraged writers and shifty bankers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rather predictable; not as good as others in the series
- By Anonymous User on 04-22-19
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One Virgin Too Many
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 87
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Men are fools for love. And that includes Marcus Didius Falco. To please his beloved, the tough shamus has become Procurer of the Sacred Poultry (i.e., babysitter of the temple geese). It's steady work and good pay, but Falco is soon restless. So when a beautiful child, chosen to enter the secret order of Vestal Virgins, disappears, he grabs the case. He quickly discovers that greed and religious fervor are only a thread away from madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Possibly my favorite Falco book
- By Marie on 06-21-17
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Two for the Lions
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Nothing's certain except death and taxes. Catching tax evaders for Emperor Vespasian looks like a plum position for Marcus Didius Falco, who has teamed up with his old boss, Anacrites, the crotchety chief spy of Rome. Soon, however, Falco is bogged down in bureaucracy, stuck at his stylus, and longing for a good murder to investigate. He gets one when someone kills Leonidas, the empire's official executioner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love this series
- By Jessica Perez-Baker on 05-24-16
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The Ides of April
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia has taken over her father’s old ramshackle digs at Fountain Court in the Surbura district, where she plies her trade with energy, determination, and the usual Falco luck.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Prefer dead old dad
- By readqueen on 10-09-13
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Time to Depart
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now, as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love the mystery!
- By MOLLYO on 02-20-16
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Prima Facie
- A Crime Novella of the Roman Empire (Roman Empire Series, Book 8.5)
- By: Ruth Downie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
It's AD 123, and the sun is shining on southern Gaul. Ex-military medic Ruso and his British wife, Tilla, are back after a long absence - but it's not the reunion anyone had hoped for. Ruso's brother has left him in charge of a farm he has no idea how to manage, a chronic debt problem, and a gaggle of accident-prone small children. Meanwhile his sister Flora has run away to rescue her boyfriend, who's accused of murdering a wealthy guest at a party.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please more!!
- By Hauoli Mom on 11-28-19
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Three Hands in the Fountain
- A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducted during festivals, and the next Games are only days away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wicked wit
- By Kathleen on 02-09-10
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The Third Nero
- The Flavia Albia Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Lindsey Davis
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
In AD 90, following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another complex caper in ancient Rome
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-18
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Enemies at Home
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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In ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves - all of them, guilty or not - were presumed responsible and were put to death...without exception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book...
- By Lawrence Jacobsen on 12-30-16
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The Graveyard of the Hesperides
- The Flavia Albia Mysteries, Book 4
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Sarah Feathers
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
Rome, August AD 89. Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases - cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till - but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narration
- By Bridget on 08-01-16
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Pandora's Boy
- The Flavia Albia Mysteries, Book 6
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
First-century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be. Over on the Quirinal Hill, a naive young girl has died, and there's a suggestion that she was poisoned by a love potion. Looking into the matter, Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, soon discovers the young girl was a handful, and her so-called friends were not as friendly as they should have been. When a friend of Albia's is murdered, things take an even more serious turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great and pithy adventure in the world of the Falcos
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Critic Reviews
"The author's vivid picture of life in A.D. 76 and the sparkling characterizations, particularly the amusing byplay between Falco and Helena, will satisfy most readers." (Publishers Weekly)
"If Sam Spade traveled back in time to A.D. 76, he'd be Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman sleuth at the center of Davis' mordant series." (Booklist)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Rose
- Chesapeake, OH, United States
- 06-22-07
Touring Ancient Greece
One of the best parts about this book was the way Davis caught the standard annoyances of swanning around the country as part of a tour group. In this case Falco's family group is chasing after a tour on which a young woman had been killed. Touring was quite popular in the Roman Empire during Falco's time and even now it is possible to find Roman graffiti on ancient monuments thus proving that the urge to leave some personal mark cuts across the ages.
Anyway there are shady tour operators, annoying and importunate guides, bad lodging, worse food and lots and lots about Greece.
The narrator does a fine job of giving Falco a believable voice.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Bonnie
- Bellmore, NY, United States
- 10-23-11
This is the third one I've read in the series.....
Seems to me our main character "Falco" just develops more and more. This one was a real mystery, with lots of twists and turns. You may need a strong stomach for some of this story. ( I don't want to give away any of it, just a heads up) If you've read any of my other reviews, you know I read lots of historical novels. I recommend this series to anyone who enjoys mystery and history.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Louise
- Laguna Niguel, CA, USA
- 01-05-08
History and Fun
If you loved "I, Claudius", you will love this. Although set 2000 years ago, it reminds me of my recent trip to the same area. Also, I love the British accents for Roman characters a la "Claudius." A fun read for history and mystery readers and for those planning a trip to Italy and Greece.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Laurie
- Lebanon, India
- 10-30-09
So much fun...
I agree completely with the review that characterized Ms. Davis' Falco novels as an Ancient Roman version of Moonlighting -- although Helena is not as tetchy as Maddie Hayes.
Mr. Rodska is pitch-perfect as narrator.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Michelle
- 11-29-09
Better then Remebered
Always having been a voracious reader, I read all the Falco books, apart from the last, as soon as they came out, but found the later ones slightly hard going. Being no longer able to read, I've turned to audiobooks and am finding the narrations of Rodska adding so much more to the author's text making it far more than merely reading the prose out loud. For me, he brings alive what are ostensibly Falco's memoirs, written in the first person, making me laugh out loud in places. He also voices the other characters superbly; the "welsh" Athenian law tutor we meet is making me smile just thinking about it. This book is well worth listening to for the final chapter alone - when I read it for myself I remember feeling "is that it", but Rodska's comic timing and voice characterisation really brought it to a perfect close.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Ruth
- 06-11-08
An entertaining listen
If you're already a fan of Didius Marcus Falco, I'm sure you'll like this, I reckon it's as good as any of the others. If you are new to the series there are a lot of people to get to know, but the characterisation is good and I didn't get confused.
Falco is a Roman 'Informer', which seems to be the equivalent to a modern day detective. He and his wife and assorted members of their family go travelling around Greece in search of the reasons behind a couple of nasty deaths, and find more death everywhere they go. Coincidence? We think not.
The story was engaging enough to keep my interest, and the idea of Ancient Roman tourism is quite thought provoking. I was expecting some progression in their search through the book, but the vital clues and the final revelation only come right at the end. Some ends are left a little bit loose.
I liked the narration, and was amused by the various regional British accents used for the speech of native Greeks, other tourists and supporting characters.
Not too long, and definitely worth a listen.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Catherine
- 04-12-13
compelling and entertaining
Christian Rodska's voice has developed Falco's personality really well as the novels have followed Falco's life and turning fortunes. It is an utterly convincing characterization of the detective, his talented wife, and in more recent novels: growing family. This novel delves into corruption in the roman travel trade. Lindsey Davis's descriptions of the key locations of Greek tourism: the acropolis, Delphi, and Olympia are startlingly accurate and evocative. Falco's dry, sardonic world view spices up the classic detective format Davis specializes in to create a compelling and entertaining listen. I really enjoyed it.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Ruth
- 06-10-10
Memorable
This was my first Marcus Didius Falco murder mystery and I loved it. The narration was excellent and I found myself able to visualise the main characters and get caught up in the plot. I also enjoyed the humour and would wholly recommend this to others who enjoy colourful who-dunnits set in bygone eras. For me, this audio book gave me much more than if I had simply read the text.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- MS P WILSON
- 06-24-16
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Excellently researched historical detail, coupled with an intriguing plot that kept me gripped throughout . The narration complimented the story, with good characterisation, making each individual instantly recognisable.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-20-18
Fantastic
The series just gets better and better.
Characters come alive through the excellent narration and story.
A great listen.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Ronan
- 12-03-13
A very average Falco mystery
What did you like best about See Delphi and Die? What did you like least?
I have read many Falco books but this lacked the usual humour and interest and I found myself hoping it would end, overall it was very average.
Would you recommend See Delphi and Die to your friends? Why or why not?
No, there are far better Falco stories
Did Christian Rodska do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?
Narration was fine.
Do you think See Delphi and Die needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No.
Any additional comments?
Perhaps story lines and content are getting more difficult to invent after so many mysteries, this one felt like it.