'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Venus in copper : a Marcus Didius Falco novel Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Period details, humor and Falco's modern sensibility add up to another sterling performance from Davis.Ĭopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Arson, evictions, skyrocketing rents, layered mortgage deals, another murder, near death for Helena and a brutal beating for himself spur Falco to ferret out the truth about the Hortensii and Severina. While Falco tries to prove that Severina Zotica has murdered her previous husbands, her betrothed is poisoned at a dinner with a notoriously unscrupulous developer and the detective must dig for other motives. Lindsey Davis Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Book 3) Kindle Edition by Lindsey Davis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 763 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Rome, AD 71. Here Falco is hired by two of the Hortensii, a group of freed slaves who have parlayed the legacy of their former owner into a fortune (which they display to vulgar excess), to investigate the thrice-widowed fiancee of one of their members. Fans of Silver Pigs and Shadows in Bronze will happily find Falco still sparring and making up with Helena Justina, the divorced daughter of a senator, carousing with his friend Petronius, captain of the Aventine Watch, obstructing his arch-enemy Anacrites, the Emperor Vespasian's chief spy, and trying to keep his mother and sisters at a comfortable distance. Davis takes us into the parts of Rome that most glittering historical fiction doesn’t reach: away from the palaces and corridors of power to the dirty street corners and crowded squares of the pleb districts (I always imagine Falco roaming through a version of the set from Rome, which I think also captures this shabby, down-at-heel quality so. Ave Marcus Didius Falco! Once again Imperial Rome's wisecracking private investigator splendidly incarnates his time and placeas he uncovers a real estate development scam that proves the slum landlord is a long-established species.

Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis