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 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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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 1
Duration 1h 51m
One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P.I. Falco wants to know why. Falco finds out that Sosia, the niece of a highly placed senator, holds the secret to a stockpile of silver pig...
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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 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 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 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 Various
Duration 12h 21m
Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. The Silver Pigs:One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty...
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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 1
Duration 12h 3m
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 revenge in the most spectacular way possible. The ki...
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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 22m
Four novella-length stories written to illuminate Lindsey Davis's unparalleled output of the last 30 years, with an introduction written and narrated by the author. Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daught...
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