Part of Series
Hæsblæsende og underholdende tur gennem det antikke Rom - fra skummel undergrund til magtens tinder i haserne på den private efterforsker og ekslegionær Marcus Didius Falco. Rom, 71 e. Kr.: Ingen kender byen bedre end Marcus Didius Falco. Ekslegionæren regnes for den bedste efterforsker, og alligevel mangler han altid penge. Men en dag spiller skæbnens gudinde ham et lovende job i armene i form af den unge, smukke Sosia Camillina, som er på flugt fra sine kidnappere. Snart bliver Falco viklet ind i et drabeligt plot, der involverer stjålne sølvbarrer og sender Falco til sølvminerne i de britiske provinser. Der, i udkanten af imperiet, afslører han en sammensværgelse, hvis net strækker sig helt ind i magtens hjerte - og som vil kunne kaste imperiet ned i afgrunden. Og dér møder han Helena Justina, senatorens datter, og forsegler ubevidst sin skæbne … Sølvgrisene er første bind i serien om Marcus Didius Falco.
Author
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm. Her interest in history and archaeology led to her writing a historical novel about Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis (The Course of Honour), for which she couldn't find a publisher. She tried again, and her first novel featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falco, The Silver Pigs, set in the same time period and published in 1989, was the start of her runaway success as a writer of historical whodunnits. A further nineteen Falco novels and Falco: The Official Companion have followed, as well as The Course of Honour, which was finally published in 1998. Rebels and Traitors, set in the period of the English Civil War, was published in September 2009. Davis has won many literary awards, and was honorary president of the Classical Association from 1997 to 1998.
