Our first review!!  From Felicity Davies:

This is a comparison between two bnooks really.
The first one is by Lindsay Davies called "Saturnalia" and is a detective story with Marcus Didius Falco.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was great fun, the characters came alive and I could actually picture them. The descriptive writing was brilliant, and often very funny. Marcus Didius is very worldy wise and laid back his observations of his fellow humanity wry and witty. The story moves quickly on, and I had difficulty putting the book down, and looked forward to picking it up again.
 
Having enjoyed that book so much, I thought that I would try another detective style book this time set in Athens. As I'm doing a study course about ancient Greek stuff, I thought it might help to visualise the place better. Well what a disappointment.
The book is called "Poison in Athens"  b y Margaret Doody, and features Aristotle and his side kick Stephanos Nikarchos or somehting very similar. (Ihave taken the book back to the library). It was tedious and the characters utterly boring. I have to say I gave up on it about 2 thirds of the way through.  I found I really couldn't care less who murdered who and with what.
Perhaps I'm being over critical, if anyone else reads these books it would be interesting to see what they think of them? Compare notes?