num_pages: 352
description: The fourteenth Falco novel is a tale of love, gangsters and female gladiators – including one from Falco’s own past.Falco and his family are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to Roman crime magnates operating in London, but he was also close to King Togidubnus. So when he is discovered stuffed head-first down a well, a tricky diplomatic situation develops that Falco must defuse, and which leads him into the seedy underbelly of London. There is a newly built amphitheatre in town, with female gladiators, but Falco soon realizes that the initially troublesome gladiators – including one from his own bachelor past – may just give him the edge he needs to solve Verovolcus’ murder, as the gangsters are pursued back to the Italian town of Ostia for a final showdown.
language: English
title: The Jupiter Myth
titlecomplete: The Jupiter Myth (Marcus Didius Falco, #14)
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Crime, Historical Mystery, Roman, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Detective, Humor, Mystery
ratings_count: 2556
places: London, England
series: Marcus Didius Falco
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
publisher: Century