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A Body in the Bath House (Falco #13) by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction | Series: Falco
'There's nothing wrong with Britain ... that is if you leave out the mammoth travelling distance from one's dear Roman heritage ' AD 75. As a passion for home improvement sweeps through the Roman Empire, Falco struggles to deal with a pair of terrible bath-house contractors who have been causing him mi ...Show more
A Capitol Death by Davis Lindsey
Category: Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia
In Rome, ruled by the erratic Emperor Domitian, Flavia Albia is dragged into the worst sort of investigation-a politically charged murder-in Lindsey Davis' next historical mystery, A Capitol Death.A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum from the Capitoline Hill in anci ...Show more
A Comedy of Terrors (#9 Flavia Albia) by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia Ser.
***The Sunday Times Crime Club Star Pick*** 'Lighthearted, witty and effortlessly clever, just like its wonderful heroine, this is a window into ancient Rome, and a tonic and a joy to read' The Observer Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably ...Show more
A Comedy of Terrors (#9 Flavia Albia) by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia Ser.
Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably a drunken riot. Flavia Albia needs a case to investigate, but all work is paused. The Aventine is full of fracturing families. Wives plot to leave their husbands, husbands plot to spend more time w ...Show more
Death on the Tiber: Flavia. Alba#12 by Lindsey Davis
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia Ser.
Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fearsome relatives and associates are taking up position to vie for the spoils. With hideous murders in the streets of Rome, a lone female traveller arrives with an agenda of her own. But when her corpse is dr ...Show more
Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia Ser.
Rome, the very end of December. The Field of Mars is packed with monuments, none more beautiful than Domitian's new Odeon and Stadium. But the area has been overtaken by ugly events: elaborately staged murders. Someone bears a spectacular grudge against the theatrical community, and intends to get reven ...Show more
Fatal Legacy (#11 Flavia Albia) by Lindsey Davis
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Flavia Albia Ser.
An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a family he was friendly with, on the condition that his freedmen could sti ...Show more
LAST ACT IN PALMYRA by LINDSEY DAVIS
Category: Fiction | Series: Falco Ser.
Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in Lindey Davis' bestselling Falco series. The spirit of adventure callls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He's picking up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, ...Show more
Master and God by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction
Afflicted by classic paranoia, the self-styled Master and God sees enemies everywhere. As he vents his suspicions, no one is safe. A reluctant hero, Gaius Vinius Clodianus is hand-picked for high rank in the Praetorian Guard a brave man striving for decency in a world of corruption and deceit. Flavia L ...Show more
Master and God by Lindsey Davis
Category: Fiction
The epic story of a despot whose contemporaries wrote him out of history. AD81. The Roman Emperor Domitian seizes power. Afflicted by classic paranoia, the self-styled Master and God sees enemies everywhere - and he is right. The Senate loathes him, his advisers are terrified, he cannot trust his wife ...Show more