A belated review of a book I finished weeks ago. A Body in the Bathhouse, by Lindsay Davis, is another in her line of Marcus Didius Falco (informer, Rome, 72AD) detective novels. This one takes Marcus and his family from Rome to the construction site of a new palace in the south of England. Since I'm originally from the south of England, this was a nice visit to ruins that, if I'm not mistaken, I've actually seen: the palace (Fishbourne) really exists. Other than the usual fun historical detail (and let's face it, it's always entertaining to remind ourselves that history was lived by real people just like us) the book is a rather standard murder mystery without any particularly memorable characters. 3 out of 5.
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