I told myself that I would finish Sacred Games during the Winter Olympics but during the Olympics I was, well, watching the Olympics so I didn’t finish this until the week after. This book about the ancient Olympics is a great companion to the modern Olympics. Definitely makes you think about them...
Trouble is afoot in Athens and Nico, the aspiring 21 year old investigator, is called upon to get to the bottom of it! Our hero is Nico, who wants to be an investigator but is being pressured by his very traditional father to go into the family sculpting business. Socrates is his younger brother...
In this third installment in the series begun with "The Pericles Commission," Nico, his father, annoying little brother, and girlfriend, Diotima, have gone to the 80th Olympic Games, of 460 B.C. Nico's father is looking for a big commission from some victorious athlete (he's a sculptor), little brot...
This is the second volume in the series begun with The Pericles Commission, and is set the next year, in 460 B.C. Nicolaus' father has refused to let him marry the girl of his choice (Diotima), who has gone off to become a priestess of Artemis at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Meanwhile, the ...
This is a fun little historical mystery, the first in a series (so far, three) set in ancient Greece. This one is set in Athens, in 461 B.C. I like how many of the characters are known ancient residents (the author has a convenient cast of characters at the front, with asterisks next to those who...
I won Gary Corby's book here on Booklikes as a giveaway. Even though the description sounded really interesting, I didn't expect much because it's the third book of his Athenian Mysteries Series. But I was completely wrong. Even though it seems to be an ongoing series - at least concerning the chara...
I can't find any other way to do it, so I'm inserting here the review of The Pericles Commission from Publishers Weekly. It's a starred review!---Those who like their historicals with a touch of humor will welcome Australian author Corby's promising debut, set in fifth-century B.C.E. Greece. When t...
I enjoyed this book all the way through. I read it in all the spare minutes I had. It meant nearly missing bus stops and staying up an extra half-hour each night to read another chapter.The first chapter is a master class on how to hook a reader. We get the murder with the great opening line: A dead...
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