Lindsey Davis
Auteur de Les Cochons d'argent
A propos de l'auteur
Lindsey Davis lives in London, England. (Publisher Provided) Lindsey Davis was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. She earned her English degree at Oxford. Her published works include The Course of Honour and The Silver Pigs, the first in the Falco series which won the Authors' Club Best First afficher plus Novel award in 1989. In 1999 she received the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Lindsey Davis
Falco: The Complete BBC Radio Collection: Five Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) — Auteur — 7 exemplaires
The descent to Avernus, with ticket office 3 exemplaires
Something Spooky on Geophys 1 exemplaire
Una conjura en Hispania 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme (1759) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 7,626 exemplaires
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
Poseidon's Gold | Less Than Meets the Eye | The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- DAVIS, Lindsey
- Date de naissance
- 1949
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Greenwich, London, England, UK
- Études
- University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Professions
- civil servant
writer - Organisations
- Crime Writers' Association (CWA)
Classical Association - Prix et distinctions
- Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective (2000)
Crimewriters' Association Dagger in the Library (1995)
Herodotus Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Historical Mysteries (2000)
Cartier Diamond Dagger (2011) - Agent
- Heather Jeeves (Heather Jeeves Literary Agency)
Membres
Discussions
Lindsay Davis à Historical Mysteries (Décembre 2015)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 53
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 23,992
- Popularité
- #875
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 658
- ISBN
- 951
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 99
I'd read the book before, thirtyish years ago, but, unlike 'The Silver Pigs' I couldn't remember any of the details. In retrospect, I should have taken that as a warning.
I dived in with enthusiasm and enjoyed the opening scenes, which were vivid and crisp and full of action. My only frustration was that Gordon Griffin had been chosen as the narrator. He's a good narrator but, to me, he seemed too old and too officer-class to voice Falco. I much preferred Christian Rodska who gave Falco a finely judged working-class swagger tinged with humour.
The book started to flag pretty much as soon as Falco left Rome. It's hard to describe someone spending nine days hanging around a temple with only a goat for company and still keep things interesting. Falco briefly returned to Rome, although nothing much happened there and then headed out, slowly, to Naples, using his friend Petro and his family as cover. Again, nothing much happened. By now I was four and a half hours into a fifteen-hour audiobook and I realised that I was bored and disappointed
The plot and the people were meandering. There was a large cast of characters but I didn't get to know much about any of them. There was no tension at all, even though Falco is being hunted by a killer and has placed Petro's family in the firing line. Helena Justina barely appears in the first third of the book and her absence left a hole that Falco and his goat couldn't fill. Falco's humour runs thin when he spends so much time alone. It didn't help that Gordon Griffith didn't seem to be able to make the humour work very well.
At 466 pages, 'Shadows In Bronze' is over 30% longer than 'The Silver Pigs' and the story seems to have spread out to fill the available space. I think it would have benefitted from being edited down by a hundred pages or so.
I decided to set the book aside. I'll give it a few weeks and then try again with 'Venus In Copper', it's set in Rome and is only 366 pages, so I have hopes of a return to form.… (plus d'informations)