With safe seas, good roads, and provinces rich in heritage sites, Marcus Didius Falco's fellow countrymen have become voracious tourists. Greece, home of the ancient Olympic Games, is a favourite destination for Seven Sights Travel, a seedy company which provides escorted tours for wealthy travellers. Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly-wed woman, both Roman visitors, have been murdered at Olympia; the authorities will not investigate properly, so Falco steps in. After making himself unwelcome at the hidebound sanctuary, he soon finds himself up against Seven Sights, its absentee tour-guide and its mixed bunch of customers, some of whom have things to hide. The search for culture is far from genteel - and it can be very dangerous. Both the bridegroom and Helena's brother go missing in the birthplace of myth, as Falco and Helena struggle with a case that may contain worse features than any they have dealt with yet.

I have followed Falco's career for years and then left him on the shelf when I moved. I finally read this next one in the series and discovered how much I had missed the humour with which Falco writes of his adventures. I love ancient Rome and Greece anyway.

Release #180 for 2021 ...

Caught today.

All in all an entertaining read, a good mystery to solve, lots of digressions and red herrings, and a somewhat surprising end.
Worth reading.

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Caught back in June 2021, 70% of the way through