Book Review: The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

A review of the first novel in the critically-acclaimed series of detective novels set in Ancient Rome.

The popularity of the detective novel has waxed and waned since Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories perfected the genre. In the decades since, names like Poirot and Columbo have carved out their niches, but it would be folly to suggest that they have reached the same level of recognition that Sherlock has. As technology has advanced, crime figh…