AuthorLindsey Davis
NarratorLucy Brown
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 5
Duration12h 17m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
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 reports that Emperor Nero is in fact very much alive and about to return to claim his throne. Two Nero pretenders have emerged in the east and met grisly fates. But now, as Emperor Domitian, whose tyrannical, paranoid reign grows ever more unpopular, fights a war in faraway Dacia, there emerges a far more sinister contender. Plunged into the conspiracy, Flavia must infiltrate the house of the Parthians who have smuggled in this new impostor, negotiate with spies, dodge the assassins sent by the Palace traitor, and somehow cope with her stricken husband. Can she succeed before the impostor is revealed?
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 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 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 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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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 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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Author: Lindsey Davis
Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 8
Duration 11h 35m
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...
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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
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 Anton Lesser Et Al
SeriesMarcus Didius Falco, Book 4
Duration 2h 47m
Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. The Iron Hand of Mars sees Falco being dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver a new standard - an iron hand - to one of the legions. Germania is col...
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