In at the Death (Marcus Corvinus Mysteries)

David Wishart's Corvinus novels are guaranteed enjoyment. They're well-plotted, the Roman background is evoked with great vigour and conviction, the mysteries are intriguing, the dialogue fast-moving and witty, the characterisation lively and entertaining. This one fully maintains the standard; and a feature that I found most enticing - especially as it holds the promise of more excitement to come in future books - is the unexpectedly sinister political dimension to the mystery, gradually revealed as the story progresses.
AND YET. We know, now, that every Corvinus book is going to be another treat; and we'll keep looking out for them and reading them as they appear. But David Wishart has written other books than the Corvinus series, which have been equally good in different ways: am I the only reader who would like to see more of them? In particular, one of my favourites of all his novels is THE HORSE COIN: a brilliant story of Boudicca's rebellion. According to the Wishart web site, this was planned as the first of a trilogy of novels of Roman Britain; but he put this idea aside. Keep the Corvinus stories coming, Mr Wishart - but could you be persuaded to give us the rest of this trilogy as well?

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David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school. He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.

Marcus Corvinus (welcome back, it seems such a long time since the last book) is called in to investigate the suicide of a young man, by the deceased's parents. When a young man kills himself it is always a tragedy, but when the person in question has, apparently everything to live for it is even more of a mystery.

When Marcus begins to delve deeper into the tragedy he begins to uncover lots of things that just do not add up and he his forced to conclude that the death was murder rather than a self inflicted one. Marcus's beautiful wife Perilla ably assists Corvinus in his investigations and the pair of them soon find out that the the suicide could be politically motivated.

In at the Death (Marcus Corvinus Mysteries)

David Wishart

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