Mystery Book Discussion Group
Lindsey Davis, The Silver Pigs
Jan 20, 2009 Main Library
Davis received the 1999 Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation Marcus Didius Falco, an Informer in 70 AD Imperial Rome. In his debut, Falco is hired to discover who murdered a Senator's niece, which sends him to Britain, where, according to the author, "the weather is filthy, the natives restless, the women angry, and his mission turns into a nightmare from which he only narrowly escapes alive."