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Follow up to The Firm

As usual with Lindsey Davis the detective element also leads to insights into the Roman water supply system, even bringing the real Julius Frontinus in as a character.

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.