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Fictional account of the battles needed to free wrongly convicted prisoners, but based on real issues.

The exile of a Roman Mob Boss should lead to at least a temporary drop in crime, but does it?

Enjoyed to introduction to a new investigator member of the Falco family. Just a filled with insights into life in Roman times

I started this series somewhere in the middle with Fatal Legacy - looking forward to seeing how it starts.

I believe in the importance of Evidence Based Medicine, and Florence was a pioneer in the area.

In some places it reads more like an adventure story, but interesting insights into a different era.

Forensics with lots of twists and turns, and in this novel, plenty of shocks!

Chapter 1 - Stars, Seconds, Cylinders and Steam (Tolerance 0.1), tells of (John WIlkinson)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkinson_(industrialist)] and his precision boring machine, patented in 1774. It also mentions (John Harrison)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison] and his quest for a clock, usable at sea and sufficiently precise to measure Longitude - though this is covered in more depth in (Longitude)[https://books.paladyn.org/book/7043/s/longitude] by Dava Sobel.

Wallendars's first case introduces many recurring characters, such as his father. He is still technically a patrolman, but due to transfer to the detective branch. Although he makes some foolish decisions a murder would not have been solved without his persistence.

I will keep referring back to the Neuroscience 101 appendix, which is useful independent of the determinism discussion