In the enchanted city of Turai, the royal family is corrupt, the politicians can be bought, and the civil guards have better things to do than guarding. Thraxas may look unprepossessing, being overweight and not quite overbrained, and more interested in pursuit of his next glass of beer than pursuit of justice, but if you're in trouble in Tural this portly private eye is probably your only hope. Turai is no stranger to death in all its forms - except that now a silent and insidious variety of death has entered the city, and no one knows who will die next. What they do know is that everywhere Thraxas goes in his search to recover a missing magical jewel, the mysterious killer has been there first, leaving the dead or dying as its calling card. Thraxas hasn't a clue, but does have a pressing shortage of funds, and if stopping the unseen, unknown silent killer is what it takes to recover the jewel and replenish his wallet, he'll take the job. But will he solve the mystery, or join the dance himself?
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Martin Millar wrote some of the best urban fiction of the lates 1980s/early 1990s. Now, under the name of Martin Scott he has, as The Guardian puts it, 'invented a new genre: pulp fantasy noir'.
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By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thraxas and the Dance of Death (Thraxas Novels) (Paperback)
Very amusing, dodgy academics, chain mail bikini wearing scholar genius, pot head head sorceresses, evil orc wizards, multiplying sorcerous items and a publican with relationship issues.Oh, and a pie shortage. A terrible, horrible, calamitous event. Who cares if the city crumbles, politicians die, unicorns ravish maidens, or whatever, if you can't get a decent meat pie? In other words, very fun. Thraxas will do what is needed and right, to ensure his food supply.
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If you enjoy sword and sorcery buy any of the Thraxas series. It is an interesting and funny take on what happens when the hard living swordsman hits middle age.
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An amusing novel in a series of books about a private investigator in a fantasy version of ancient Rome called "Turai".A little like Glen Cook's "Garrett P.I." series, but this reminded me even more strongly of Lindsey Davis's "Falco" novels about an informer in the real Rome. This is the fourth and most recent to date in a series comprising Thraxas Death and Thraxas Thraxas & the Sorceres Thraxas & the Dance of Death. Like Marcus Didius Falco, the hero of this book, Thraxas, is an investigator with a lot of enemies. Like Falco, he has a lovely associate, though instead of a razor-sharp senator's daughter, Makri is a part human, part Elf and part Orc, lethal with a sword, and sometimes wears a chainmail bikini described as "one of the smallest garments ever seen in the civilised world." Like Garett but unlike Falco, Thraxas lives in a city where sorcery and magic add their dangers to the usual crop of merely human villains. In this fourth book in the series, Thraxas is hired to recover an extremely important magical jewel which has gone missing. But every time he gets close to the missing item, he finds a collection of dying or recently killed victims instead. Soon everyone from senators to the press is blaming him for a mysterious wave of murders, and the public are making bets with bookmakers on how many people will get killed before Thraxas's latest case has been resolved. Meanwhile Makri is falsely accused of theft and Thraxas is falsely accused of cowardice. With his licence to investigate suspended, Thraxas is in big trouble - but not nearly as much trouble as the city of Turai will be in if he doesn't find the stolen jewel before certain other people do ... Entertaining if a little silly. If you have read and enjoyed either the Garett P.I. or Marcus Didius Falco series, and don't object to a little escapist fantasy, you will probably enjoy the Thraxas books. If you enjoyed this or other books about Thraxas, have not previously heard of Falco, and would like to read an even better series about a similar character in the real world, then I recommend youtake a look at the Falco novels, the first of which is, "The Silver Pigs" by Lindsey Davis.
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