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A Body in the Bathhouse, by Lindsey Davis
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• pro #1 Rich detail about construction trades.
• pro #2 Whodunnit is a surprise.
• pro #3 Shows timelessness of homeowners' remodeling problems.
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• con #1 For a lover of ancient Rome, too much happens abroad.
• con #2 No particular problems for Falco fans.
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For Falcophiles and those who have suffered from contractors who were incompetent, at best, this is a good story about urbane, wise-cracking Romans visiting a first century British construction site.
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Accomplishing many goals at once, the extended Falco family heads to Britain.
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Falco handles the subtle problems of his in-laws and sister while working for the emperor.
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Outsider Falco has to outwit the locals to learn who buried the body in his father's bathhouse.
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A Body in the Bathhouse
Lindsey Davis based this story (about the barely upwardly mobile, Roman informer, Marcus Didius Falco and his partners) on the recent excavations of a Roman palace near Chichester, in modern England. Falco has acquired two assistants from the patrician family of his wife Helena who accompany the Falco family on their trip to Britain to do the emperor's bidding. While Helena's brothers may not know what kind of dirty work will be expected of them, at least they come along voluntarily. Not so Falco's sister who is abducted for her own good and to keep her from the clutches of one of Falco's former partners. Whether or not this abduction will lead to romantic involvement with another of Falco's former partners remains to be seen.
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