Falco is on a holiday trip with relatives in Britain when he finds himself in familiar murderous territory: he’s soon involved in a savage killing. The Jupiter Myth followed such earlier Falco novels as Ode to a Banker, and is just as enjoyable as its predecessors. Her books featuring the intelligent Roman sleuth Falco marry a great deal of authentic-seeming historical elements with storytelling nous of a rare order.
1 – The Ancient Worldįor many years Lindsey Davis has been one of the most reliable names in the realms of the historical thriller – few would argue with the proposition that she is the market leader in the ‘crime in Ancient Rome’ subgenre. The reach of the genre is as wide as history itself, from the ancient world (with such writers as Lindsey Davis, Steven Saylor and Ruth Downie) to the Tudor period (stomping ground of multi-prize-winning CJ Sansom, SJ Parris/Stephanie Merritt and beyond. Further attention accrued when impressive writers began to enrich and expand the genre, gleaning a variety of heavyweight awards (such as Andrew Taylor with his epic The American Boy, which featured a youthful version of the man who invented the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe). After Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (1980) and the Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael novels (beginning in 1977), the genre began to awaken commercial interest among a variety of publishers.
And this astonishingly varied offshoot of the crime genre is winning a slew of awards, notably the CWA Historical Dagger. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of Ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. The book is published on 26 April 2018, and to introduce you to some of the expertise you’ll find inside we asked Barry to provide us with a tour through the ages, pinpointing some of the best historical crime fiction available. A book reviewer for the national papers, and an author who has written guidebooks to British, European and Scandinavian crime fiction, Barry Forshaw’s latest work is Historical Noir. It’s like a match made in Ancient Babylon… or… something like that, anyway. Crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw and Crime Fiction Lover.
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