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Saturnalia
- Marcus Didius Falco, Book 18
- Narrated by: Christian Rhodska
- Series: Marcus Didius Falco, Book 18
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Kevin
- 28-07-2017
Lindsay Davis back to her best
Thoroughly loved this book, a great adventure with everything the preceding couple of books in this series seemed to lack.
A gripping tale well narrated that I could lose myself back in ancient Rome.
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- B. A. Chapman
- 10-03-2009
SATURNALIA & AUDIBLE, A GREAT MIX
This is my first audio book downloaded from Audible - but I am a 20 year fan of audio books, having a collection of over 300. I was delighted to find I could now download them, as I am rapidly running out of shelving space! Having listened on my Sansa Clip I wish I'd changed some time ago, as its much more user friendly than playing the cassettes.
Cornelius Garet as usual does a great job of this Falco novel - pity all novels aren't available. In fact my only quibble with Audible is that of the numerous series of books I would like, only a few of each seem to be available - lets hope this improves with time.
Meanwhile, a great service!
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- Victoria Corby
- 08-06-2020
Superb
One of the best Falco stories, very funny in places and superbly read. Wish Christian Rodska read all the Falco books.
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- jamie54
- 13-05-2020
very easy on the ear
no problem to follow good diction great people good history story line was very good
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- John1962
- 13-06-2015
Saturnalia
From the very beginning this book captured my imagination and kept me entertained for hours. I can't wait to start the next book in the Falco series.
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