Whilst I enjoyed the book overall, it took me far too long to read, which contributes some (much?) to me forgetting who is who and who has done what. What a shame publishers have stopped producing “cast list”s or at least, handy family trees!
Short of walking around with a crib-sheet/notebook for every book I read (which I just might have to!) I’m going to be permanently confused. Everyone has at least 3 different names, which are used depending on gender, role and relationship, so I have a tendency to forget who is who. The problem I have with this kind of book is the same one I have with “The Russians”. This frequently complicates things, as her ex-husband (declared dead 3 months previously) and her new ex-in-laws are deeply entwined in the case Falco is investigating and he doesn’t know what kind of relationship he actually has with Helena This leads Falco into a situation involving the upper echelons of Roman society (therefore lots of parties in large Villas), where Falco regi arly encounters his amour, Helena. and this ultimately results in the search for a freeman called Barnabus, who has a connection to the family of the person found dead (presumed murdered). The opening scene is over the disposal of a corpse down a sewer. Falco is still relatively young (around 30), unmarried, living in the top floor hovel apartment that would ultimately become his daughter’s lodgings, etc.
This is the second in the Falco series of books. Can the hero of Silver Pigs satisfy the emperor he works for and the woman he pines for without getting himself killed? With readers and critics hungry for his further adventures, Ancient Roman gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco really has no choice.
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