(In the Author’s Introduction, Davis explains that she provided Falco with “a rampaging Italian family headed by a forthright mother. Our narrator, a P.I., introduces himself by declaring, “Some men are born lucky others are called Didius Falco.” Falco, 29 when the story starts, acquaints us with his office on the sixth floor of a dank tenement and tells us about his family members, who play large roles in his life.
It begins in Rome in AD 70, a year after Vespasian seized the throne of the Roman Empire. which makes it very amusing on a meta level, since the author adds a great deal of humor to the story by overlaying the ancient setting with noir crime fiction tropes. The first installment of this historical fiction detective series is as stereotypically a “hard boiled” crime fiction book as you can get with a setting in Ancient Rome.
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