AuthorLindsey Davis
NarratorLucy Brown
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 1
Duration11h 2m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
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 ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances. Albia investigates and discovers there have been many other strange deaths all over the city, yet she is warned off by the authorities. The vigils are incompetent. The local magistrate is otherwise engaged, organising the Games of Ceres, notorious for its ancient fox-burning ritual. Even Albia herself is preoccupied with a new love affair: Andronicus, an attractive archivist, offers all that a love-starved young widow can want, even though she knows better than to take him home to meet the parents...
Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 3
Duration 2h 48m
In the heyday of the Roman Empire, a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is finally bailed out, and promptly accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe... A third instalment of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries s...
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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 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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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 11
Duration 11h 51m
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 still take its harvest. The convoluted arrangemen...
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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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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 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 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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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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