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Title: Still not on form
Review: Something odd happened with the previous Falco novel, 'A body in the bathhouse'. The series is generally very reliable, but it started to dive and reached bottom with that book. The Jupiter Myth is inevitably an improvement -- but not much. It's set in Londinium, but the plot is a retread of 'Time to Depart'. Somehow it grates. On the one hand, we expect Londinium to be pretty rural and basic. But on the other hand we have this crime syndicate operating, invisibly? This simply doesn't work. Helena is nagging Falco, which doesn't really work either.So it's hard to recommend this one. Buy one of the earlier ones: anything up to and including "One virgin too many".
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