The Curse-Maker (Roman Noir, #2)

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The Curse Maker is the sequel to he award winning Nox Dormienda, the first book of the Roman noir series created by Kelli Stanley City of Dragons Wedding impeccably researched history to prose and themes reminiscent of classic hard boiled writers, The Curse Maker is a thrilling and suspenseful journey into a dark corner of Roman Britain you ve never seen before When Roman physician Arcturus and his stunning wife, Gwyna, arrive at Bath for a holiday, a dead body is floating in the sacred spring It turns out that the murdered man is a curse maker whose invocations actually come true, and as murder follows murder, it looks like there s now a curse on Arcturus This is an exciting and exotic story of a spa town where people go to healonly to wind up dead And it takes the doctor investigator on a dark road into Roman cemeteries, silver mines, and underground water tunnels to comprehend the twisted mind of a killer bent on revenge. Best Read The Curse-Maker (Roman Noir, #2) by Kelli Stanley For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This was a disappointment as I enjoyed the first in this series.The murder mystery solution was fine but the setting could have been anywhere very little of the history was incorporated unlike the first b...I felt this to be too derivative For Roman noir David Wishart with his Marcus Corvinus series has a touch of humor, lacks the profanity in this one and is on the whole better Ruth Downie s doctor, Ruso, has Arcturus beat by a mile In Aquae Sulis today s Bath, England bodies pile up and it is reported the nearby lead mine is haunted Arcturus, doctor to Governor Agricola sets out to solve the murders beginning with that of Bibrax, a curse writer, whose curses have the notoriety of coming t I felt this to be too derivative For...Don t know I ve read The city of Dragons by Kelli I read about 1 2. of this one,, just didn t care for itThat s just my opinionIt did get a good review from other Goodread members Sorry. she is a goog writer..looking forward to other books from KelliWhen I picked up this book I was unaware that it was a sequel Nevertheless, this story was still enjoyable without reading the first installment The novel is set as a period piece from when Roman Britannia were in their heyday A physician and his wife are reunited after he comes back from a military deployment They desire to be refreshed and restored, so they journey to a spa town known for its healing waters When they arrive a murder has taken place which sucks them into an undesirable sit When I picked up this book I was unaware that it was a sequel Nevertheless, this story was still enjoyable without reading the first installment The novel is set as a period piece from when Roman Britannia were in their heyday A physician and his wife are reunited after he comes back from a military deployment They desire to be refreshed and restored, so they journey to a spa town known for its healing waters When they arrive a murder...Awful, just awful This is almost a good book, but it needs some severe editing It is way too long The characters and dialog show great promise, but the plot just gets lost It is a long slow slog to the great reveal, and frankly by then I just...First Sentence The man was floating, serene, tunic swirling in the undulating waves like clouds against a blue sky.Arcturus, a Roman physician, and his beautiful wife, Gwyna, have come to Acquae Sulis Bath for a holiday and to repair the breach in their marriage Before they even arrive at their residence, they come across a dead body of a curse maker floating in the sacred bath Instead of a h...The second in Stanley s Roman noir series finds Arcturus in Aquae Sulis modern Bath, England Arcturus, physician to the governor and crime solver, knows his wife, Gwyna, is suffering, but not exactly sure why Ardur, as Gwyna calls him, makes a trip from Londinium to the baths and the temple of the goddess Sulis a.k.a Minerva for her sake.When a body is encountered at the baths, Philo, an unmarried, local doctor who is attracted to Gwyna, asks Arcturus to help determine the cause of death T The second in Stanley s Roman noir series finds Arcturus in Aquae Sulis modern Bath, England Arcturus, physician to the governor and crime solver, knows his wife, Gwyna, is suffering, but not exactly sure why Ardur, as Gwyna calls him, makes a trip from Londinium to the baths and the temple of the goddess Sulis a.k.a Minerva for her sake.When a body is encountered at the baths, Philo, an unmarried, local doctor who is attracted to Gwyna, asks Arcturus to help determine the cause of death The dead man, whom no one seems to know much about, was Bibax, a local curse maker There seem to be a lot of these curse makers, whom the citizens pay to inscribe curs...The Curse Maker, set in Bath during the Roman period, blends a twisting, exciting mystery with a vivid Roman setting Stanley combines her background as a classicist with a passion for noir mystery Her sleuth, Arcturus, the doctor for the Roman governor of Britannia, narrates in a hard edged Dashiell Hammett style Arcturus arrives in Bath with his beloved but troubled wife Gwyna in order to vacation and restore his wife s well being He stumbles instead upo...Roman doctor Arcturus and his wife, Gwyna, travel to Bath England to visit the spas there When they arrive they find a body floating in the sacred spring It is the body of Rufus Bibax, a noted local curse maker The town officials ask Arcturus to assist in finding out who committed this evil but he findsmurder, political intrigue, blackmail and treachery than he expects This was a very good book A quick read with elusive solutions The characters are very well written and the mix of hi Roman doctor Arcturus and his wife, Gwyna, travel to Bath England to visit the spas there When they arrive they find a body floating in the sacred spring It is the body of Rufus Bibax, a noted local curse maker The town officials ask Arcturus to assist in finding out who committed this evil but he findsmurder, political intrigue, blackmail and treachery than he expects This was a very good book A quick re...a mystery set in ancient Britain during the governorship of Agricola The main character is a doctor, Arcturus He takes his wife to Bath after he returns from a bloody battlefield There they stumble over the body of a murder victima and he is asked by the town fathers t...

The Curse-Maker (Roman Noir, #2)
  • English
  • 08 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 300 pages
  • 0312654197
  • Kelli Stanley
  • The Curse-Maker (Roman Noir, #2)