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Sacred Games (The Athenian Mysteries #3)

Gary Corby

Hardcover | Pages: 350 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 461 Users | 100 Reviews

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ISBN:	161695227X (ISBN13: 9781616952273)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Athenian Mysteries #3
Setting:	Greece

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The third book in the critically acclaimed series set in Classical Athens, featuring the historically inspired amateur detective Nicolaos.
 
It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is hot favorite to win. His only serious rival is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who else could have killed the second-best fighter in all Hellas but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days' time, as soon as the Sacred Games have finished.
 
Complicating everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at each other's throats, in the opening stages of a power struggle for control of Hellas. If an Athenian is found to have cheated at the Games by murdering a Spartan, it will be everything the hawks in Sparta need to declare open war the moment the Sacred Truce is over. And that's a war Athens cannot hope to win.
 
Nico and his partner in sleuthing, the annoyingly clever priestess Diotima, have four days to save their friend and avert a war that would tear their world apart.

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Title	:	Sacred Games (The Athenian Mysteries #3)
Author	:	Gary Corby
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 350 pages
Published	:	May 21st 2013 by Soho Crime (first published January 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Greece

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Ratings: 4.01 From 461 Users | 100 Reviews

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The Socrates cameos are hilarious.

A very exciting read, especially in the last half when the ending comes as a total surprise. The story brings back the main characters and some other characters from prior books in Corby's mystery series set in Ancient Greece. There's five in the series as of this date. Having now read the first three of them, I must admit this third book is the best ever. I'm wondering how the next ones The Marathon Conspiracy and Death Ex Machina will be, so am eager to read those latest books as well. The

the information on the greek civilisation bits were fascinating but the storyline was alright only.

I found this story dragged quite a bit with too many details about the customs at the Olympic Games and too much emphasis on sex between the characters involved. A little is good, a lot gets boring. Not as interesting to me as the previous books in the series that I've read.

First-rate fun, even better if you have some kind of background in ancient Greek history. Will be reading the others.

This was quite a fun read, definitely did not pick the murderer but I liked how it went!! There were some parts I didn't like but they were mostly historical period stuff, so obviously including made the story more accurate, even if it was annoying my feminist heart

Nicolaus and Diotima consider themselves to be married, but since his father and her stepfather can't agree on Diotima's dowry, they disagree. They have all gathered at Olympia for the Sacred Games, where Nico expects to only be an observer. But when his old friend Timodemus is accused of murdering Arakos, a Spartan athlete, and Timo's competitor in the pankration, Nico is appointed as one of the investigators into the crime. Since both Nico and Timo are Athenian, a Spartan, Markos, is also