{"title":"Series: Flavia Albia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gumshoebooks.com\/collections\/author-lindsey-davis\"\u003eLindsey Davis\u003c\/a\u003e' Flavia Albia detects crime and murders in Rome during the reign of Domitian. Follows on from the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gumshoebooks.com\/collections\/series-m-didius-falco\"\u003eMarcus Didius Falco\u003c\/a\u003e series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"death-on-the-tiber-by-lindsey-davis-9781399719629","title":"Death on the Tiber","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume 12 in the Flavia Alba series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Father Tiburinus rolls down from the Apennines, laden with silt and much worse things. Albia and Tiberius spot that a dredger has pulled a corpse out of the river, a corpse that bears evidence of foul play, although that fails to excite the authorities. A boatload of tourists of a well-heeled type has come and gone, leaving a mystery behind; it happens at a crucial time in the ever-warring gangster community. Albia will have to consider not only Rome’s endemic violence but the failings of the various public bodies who are supposed to tackle crime and threats to the community. Forced to remember her own origins in Britain, she finds herself facing a dark crisis of her own. Will she have the right contacts to support her dogged quest for justice, and as she resists the traditions of a paternalist society, will she acknowledge the people who love her and allow them to help?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are places we know, people we would rather not remember, and a very elaborate joke about crime writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Lindsey Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49447578632533,"sku":"000195","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/7462\/6133\/files\/9781399719629_2d6c38d6-cee2-44ef-aa14-ec7cb17e3096.webp?v=1725357547"},{"product_id":"fatal-legacy-by-lindsey-davis-9781529354775","title":"Fatal Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume 11 in the Flavia Alba series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the extreme violence of Desperate Undertakings, here is a story where nobody seems to have died except one man, forty years ago, at a reasonable age, from catching a cold. 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The vigils are incompetent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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... As the festival progresses, her neighbourhood descends into mayhem and becomes the heartless killer's territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Albia and her allies search for him, he stalks them through familiar byways and brings murder ever closer to home. 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An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven as the dust settles from her last case, Albia finds herself once again drawn into a web of lies and intrigue. Two mysterious deaths at a local villa may be murder and, as the household slaves are implicated, Albia is once again forced to involve herself. Her fight is not just for truth and justice, however; this time, she's also battling for the very lives of people who can't fight for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindsey Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49809431986517,"sku":"001402","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/7462\/6133\/files\/9781444766608_8df0dfeb-397e-4868-907a-6594c54919c0.jpg?v=1730463234"},{"product_id":"deadly-election-by-lindsey-davis-9781444794182","title":"Deadly Election","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 knows to be the last chaste man in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father', whose traditional family values are being called into question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit. As Albia's and Faustus' professional and personal partnership deepens they have to accept that, for others, obsession can turn sour, and become a deadly strain that leads, tragically, to murder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lindsey Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49809436901717,"sku":"001403","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/7462\/6133\/files\/9781444794182_fb59f039-7502-49c1-ab94-f3575e311940.jpg?v=1730463241"},{"product_id":"the-graveyard-of-the-hesperides-by-lindsey-davis-9781473613393","title":"The Graveyard of the Hesperides","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive more skeletons are discovered. Despite the fact that nobody seems to know or care who died, violent attempts are made to stop her enquiries. Soon Albia is exploring the world of Roman streetlife, where bars are brothels, workers lead brutal lives, foreigners are muscling in on the gambling syndicates, and extortion is commonplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's more there's little time to solve the mystery before the wedding day when Albia is expected to show Rome that her affair with Manlius is a much more than a casual fling. 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