AuthorLindsey Davis
NarratorJane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 8
Duration11h 35m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
Julius Caesar left his gardens to the citizens of Rome, a peaceful sanctuary across the Tiber. Now the gardens and their sacred grove are dangerous haunts, especially for women alone. 'Don't go to the Grove,' people mutter, but when her husband has to leave Rome, it falls to Albia to supervise his building project in an old grotto. Why has someone buried tattered scrolls by obscure philosophers - and does it involve a worse crime than terrible writing? Soon that puzzle is overtaken. A woman disappears from her husband's birthday party; she meets a dire fate, then Albia learns that on the same night, two louche slaves given to her family by the brooding Emperor Domitian also vanished in the gardens. Can Albia herself remain safe? And, after others have failed, can she at last identify the predator who has made the Grove his killing ground?
Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Lucy Brown
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 1
Duration 11h 2m
Falco: the new generation - Introducing Flavia Albia. Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in anc...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lessor Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 5
Duration 2h 14m
Returning to Rome after his mission to Germania, Falco finds that his mother is being harassed by a centurion named Censorinus, who says he is chasing a debt owed to him by Falco's brother Festus. Censorinus claims that Festus was involved in a syndicate, shipping valuable statues from Greece - and that even when his ship sunk, Festus had guarantee...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Lucy Brown
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 2
Duration 10h 43m
From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome. Flavia Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: Young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and ma...
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The Graveyard of the Hesperides
Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Sarah Feathers
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 4
Duration 11h 40m
Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem: At the Garden of the Hesperides a barmaid went missing years before; now the workmen start unearthing her bones. Albia takes on the task of finding out what happened. Five more skeletons are discovered. Despite the fact t...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 3
Duration 11h 26m
In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end. The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Various
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 2
Duration 2h 39m
No caveats for readers of Davis's second playful, well-plotted mystery featuring imperial agent Marcus Didius Falco and based in first century, C.E., Rome. Nero's successor Vespasian has squelched an early treasonous plot and assigned Falco to take care of loose ends, which include the body of the uncle of the high-born young widow Helena Justina,...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Lucy Brown
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 5
Duration 12h 17m
Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled, and they have no funds. So when Palace officials ask her to help expose a plotter in their midst, she is obliged to accept their commission. The plot could not be bigger. Ever since he died in AD 68, apparently by his own hand, Rome has been haunted by repo...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 6
Duration 10h 52m
Flavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. On the Quirinal Hill, Clodia Volumnia, a very young girl with stars in her eyes, has died, amid suggestions that she was poisoned by a love potion. It will have been supplied by a local witch, who goes by the...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 7
Duration 11h 10m
A tragic accident...or was it? Emperor Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for the celebration accidentally falls to his death from a cliff on the symbolic Capitoline Hill. But an old woman comes for...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 11h 17m
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 with their mistresses. But no one wants to hire an inv...
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