Customer Reviews
Excellent reading - By: J. Shoemark, 06 Jun 2009 
Excellent. The author has you guessing from start to finish. A must for mystery lovers!
Having your cake and eating it! - By: J. Harding, 26 Apr 2009 
Which do you like best? a fast-moving exciting modern day thriller/detective story or a mystery setin a dramatic historical event? No need to choose. You can have both at oncein this well written, well researched, & pacey novel. I couldn't put it down (and it's some time since I last felt that). Enjoy!Footprintsin the Ash: A Pompeii Mystery
Past and present intrigue - By: Ana Lopez, 01 Apr 2009 
This is a griping thriller mixing mysteries from the past with a contemporary detectivesque intrigue, with a fresh dynamic style. The story is structuredin a compelling double plot full of suspense & building tension, centred on very believable characters. Both stories are intricately woven into the powerful historical atmosphere of the setting, with great skill.
Footprints in the Ash - By: Mr. David Pugh, 21 Dec 2008 
I found this to be an entertaining & well constructed novel. I can recommend it to all lovers of mystery / historical novels.
Pompeii rises phoenix-like - By: Ian Teiger, 29 Jul 2008 
It is all too easy to read of tragic historical events without empathy for the people to whom they happened.Stanley Salmons has created a fiction based on well researched facts such that the reader cannot fail to be moved by a cataclysm which really did happen to people with lives & emotions just like you & I.
The mysterious disappearance of Professor of archeology Julian Lockheart while on a dig to uncover some new finds on the foothills of Vesuvius,is the background for an investigative thriller as good as any of its genre.
This book could only have been written by a scientist whose attention to detail is superb