AuthorCaroline Lawrence
NarratorKim Hicks
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 1
Duration4h
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
The year is 79 AD. The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Germina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to embark on a thrilling adventure. The theft of her father's signet ring leads her to three extraordinary people who become her friends - Jonathan the Jewish boy next door, Nubia the African slave girl and Lupus the mute beggar's boy. Their investigations take them to the harbour, the forum, and the tombs of the dead, as they try to discover who is killing the dogs of Ostia, and why. The first book in a series of Roman mysteries.
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Author Caroline Lawrence
Narrator Nigel Anthony
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 3h 15m
It's December, AD 80. Ostia is gripped by a case of triple murder. The defendant seems the most unlikely criminal - a tragic and beautiful slave girl with a haunted past. Who will defend the slave girl? And is she really innocent? Justice must prevail in the courtroom, but it isn't easy when the vices and virtues of everyone concerned - even Fla...
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Author: Caroline Lawrence
Author Caroline Lawrence
Narrator Kim Hicks
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 3
Duration 4h 43m
It's late August, AD 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red and the sea gives up corpses of the dead. At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities of Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. But then children begin to go missing...
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Author: Caroline Lawrence
Author Caroline Lawrence
Narrator Nigel Anthony
SeriesRoman Mysteries, Book 15
Duration 3h 30m
It's May, AD 81. On their way back to Ostia from North Africa, the Roman merchant ship carrying Flavia and her friends is wrecked and one of the four detectives goes missing. A desperate quest takes the others to the Romano-Egyptian port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, and the library and the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes, riddl...
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