They both sound like interesting books Steve. I like books about monks, they always seem to have a spooky supernatural edge. Shell. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 9:37 PM To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ebooktalk] CURRENT READING > Hi > > > > While I am avoiding Casualty I have the time to tell you about what I am > reading at present. > > > > Firstly, I'm almost breaking one of my rules in that I am reading twobooks > set in the same place. However as there is over 2000 years between them it > shouldn't be much of a problem. The first is Robert Harris' Lustrum. This is > the second part of his fictional biography of Cicero. I read the first > volume because it was Robert Harris but didn't expect to enjoy much but > surprised myself by finding I was totally immersed in it. So far the second > part is living up to the first. The second book is The Lost Girls of Rome by > Domato Carrisi. This is a complex one. It is almost Robert Langdon meets > Temperance Brennan but not quite. It starts with unrelated incidents in > Rome, Milan and Paris and features modern day monks using heightened > perception to find out what has happened and a Forensic scientist looking > for scientific proof. So far it is good. I don't know anything about the > author but assume the book has been translated from Italian. > > > > Steve > >