Amazon.co.uk: "With safe seas, good roads, and provinces rich in heritage sites, Marcus Didius Falco's fellow countrymen have become voracious tourists. Greece, home of the ancient Olympic Games, is a favourite destination for Seven Sights Travel, a seedy company which provides escorted tours for wealthy travellers. Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly-wed woman, both Roman visitors, have been murdered at Olympia; the authorities will not investigate properly, so Falco steps in. After making himself unwelcome at the hidebound sanctuary, he soon finds himself up against Seven Sights, its absentee tour-guide and its mixed bunch of customers, some of whom have tings to hide. The search for culture is far from genteel - and it can be very dangerous. Both the bridegroom and Helena's brother go missing in the birthplace of myth, as Falco and Helena struggle with a case that may contain worse features than any they have dealt with yet."
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Interesting in some ways, but Falco's "progress" surely mirrors the author's own touring of Greek "highlights." Some glaring errors, particularly in what would have been visible at Delphi in the late 1st Cent. AC: the place was undoubtedly picked clean long before that. Still, as the series, not bad for the beach. (Falco and Helena are getting awfully boringly complacent with one another though, and Helena is emerging as much the more interesting character. Lindsey, why not just kill off tiresome Falco?)
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