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Marcus and Perilla are in Baiae with his mother and step father. Everyone is enjoying the pleasure town, Marcus has found a regular townie wine shop and befriends one of the regulars. When that man's hated landlord is found dead, Marcus sets out to save his accused skin. THe family is a collection of nasty folks and dirty business deals abound. Interesting side story with Priscus getting into the Baiae lifestyle. Interesting story and like Marcus I should have figured it out from jump for a very obvious clue.


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Food for the Fishes Marcus Corvinus Mysteries David Wishart Books Reviews

I will never buy another one of his mysteries. The story line is very good but I do not like to read his f***ing this and f***ing that. There's no need for language like that in a Roman story. I'm sure he could have found a much more Roman term to use than that. Also he writes in too much modern English sayings that you do not get the feel of a Roman story. It sounds like a modern story in Roman dress. I really like the Roman detectives but not his style of writing. He could learn a good lesson from Linday Davis and Rosemary Rowe. Far superior writers and with them you get the feeling of actually being in Rome not in an East End (London) gang. Will not purchase anything of his again. Money wasterd.
I've been a fan of his series for some time. For those who don't know him take the Maltese Falcon to Ancient Rome and add some local spice and you get Marcus Corvinus. After you get past these references the series are a delightful distraction from the 21st century.
Okay, I get it. Marcus Corvinus is a wise-cracking detective in ancient Rome. I could get past that. But I would appreciate the author being a bit more clever in his language by using wisecracks that might actually be relevant to the time period. Perhaps we're supposed to accept phrases like "...but all the same for Priscus to come home drunk was about as likely as a crayfish tap-dancing the length of the Baian seafront" and use our imagination as to what an equivalent remark would be for the time. The book is filled these types of anachronisms and I think it's just lame. The story is an amusing mystery, but not to my taste. I prefer Gordianus the Finder over the equivalent of Guy Noir dropped into ancient Rome.
David Wishart produces great Roman mysteries from a part of Europe Rome never reached - just north of Hadrian's Wall. Food for the Fishes is one of the most enjoyable of Wishart's series about Marcus Corvinus, a young patrician, set during the reign of Tiberius.

The interplay among Corvinus and the recurring supporting cast is one of the strengths of Wishart's series. Perilla (his wife), Vispania (his mother) and Priscus (his step-father) are all well developed characters and each contributes to this book, which is set in Vispania's seaside villa in Baiae, a favorite Roman resort for the wealthy.

The mystery itself is delightfully plotted and the book is well written. I look forward to each installment in the series, as I do to those of Steven Saylor, Lindsey Davis and Rosemary Rowe.
When it comes to writing detective novels taking place in Ancient Rome, David Wishart is right up there with the best of them, Lindsey Davis and Steven Saylor to name but two.

The lead character Marcus Corvinus makes an amusing and likeable sleuth and with the help of his very able wife Perilla, not much gets past the pair of them when it comes to solving crimes in the ancient city.

When Licinius Murena the owner of a fish farm is found dead in one of his own eel tanks there are not many tears shed. Certainly not by Trebbio who has recently been booted out of his house by the landowner. Nor by the stunning young widow, half Murena's age. His daughter is not losing any sleep over the loss of her daddy either. The man's farm manager does not seem too distressed either. Does anyone like the murder victim.

It would seem that Corvinus has a list of suspects as long as his arm. Could this be one that even Marcus cannot solve . . .
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea -- Corvinus is visiting his mother at her vacation villa in Baiae, and murder (naturally) raises its ugly head. I read everyone of Wishart's series of Roman mysteries with pleasure, because of the appealing central character (and his interesting household), and because of the excellent recreation of the Roman scene. The later books in the series may not be as compelling as the earlier entries, but I happily buy them as soon as they come out.
Wishart knows and loves history, and is a really good writer.
Marcus and Perilla are in Baiae with his mother and step father. Everyone is enjoying the pleasure town, Marcus has found a regular townie wine shop and befriends one of the regulars. When that man's hated landlord is found dead, Marcus sets out to save his accused skin. THe family is a collection of nasty folks and dirty business deals abound. Interesting side story with Priscus getting into the Baiae lifestyle. Interesting story and like Marcus I should have figured it out from jump for a very obvious clue.