num_pages: 242
description: Winner of the Best First Novel award from the Authors' Club, and debut of the Didius Falco mystery series.It is A.D. 70, when Roman P.I. Marcus Didius Falco runs into comely Sosia Camillina on the steps of the Forum. It seems she's being chased by a few unsavories for a stockpile of silver pigs--silver ingots--but Falco wants more information. What he gets is a whiff of treason and a one-way ticket to his own funeral pyre...."It has mystery, pace, wit, fascinating scholarship, and above all, two protagonists for whom, by the end, I feel genuine affection, and want to meet again."Ellis Peters
language: English
title: Silver Pigs
titlecomplete: Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, #1)
characters: Helena Justina, Marcus Didius Falco
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical Mystery, Crime, Roman, Italy, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 14471
places: Britain, Rome
series: Marcus Didius Falco
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Ballantine Books