Sour Grapes - Marilyn Todd

As a young man growing up in the dense Amazon Rainforest, this book was the only souvenir of my earlier childhood in England. I read this book every night before I went to bed on my matress of liana and shredded tree roots. It's not a particularly enthralling book, but for me it holds special sentimental value, as it was given to me by my great uncle, a good friend of Marilyn Todd's (the author). The story is set in Roman times and falls under the category of crime. It includes light humour in some places and is rife with double-entendres like, for example, one of the central characters, Gaius, who is ostentatios and camp and lives up to the implications of his name. ...  Read the complete review

*** The Author *** The author was born in Middlesex, later lived in West Sussex where she run a secretarial business from home, and now lives in France. She has no formal educational qualifications in the classics, but says that the origins of Greek mythology have always fascinated her. She has written 13 books in her series of Ancient Roman murder mysteries. Sour Grapes is number 12 in the series. It didn't seem to matter that I hadn't read the previous ones first, although I believe that they do contain some of the same characters. She is now writing books about a High Priestess in Ancient Greece. *** Historical Setting ...  Read the complete review