AuthorLindsey Davis
NarratorSarah Feathers
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 4
Duration11h 40m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
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 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. What'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. The gods, however, have other ideas...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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