A Comedy of Terrors, Lindsey Davis
A Comedy of Terrors, Lindsey Davis
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A Comedy of Terrors
A Flavia Albia Novel

Author: Lindsey Davis

Narrator: Jane Collingwood

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/27/2021

Synopsis

In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands—in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors.

Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of Saturnalia. But that doesn't mean all is quiet. Her husband Tiberius and the Fourth Cohort are battling organized crime interests that are going to war over the festival nuts. A series of accidental poisonings, then bloody murders of rival nut-sellers, and finally a gruesome warning to Tiberius from the hidden criminal powers to back off.

Albia has had just about enough and combines forces with Tiberius to uncover the hidden criminal gangs trying to worm their way into the establishment at a banquet of the emperor Domitian.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

About Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, England. After taking an English degree at Oxford and working for the civil service for thirteen years, she “ran away to be a writer.” Her internationally bestselling novels featuring ancient Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco include Venus in Copper, The Iron Hand of Mars, Nemesis and Alexandria. She is also the author of Rebels and Traitors, set during the English Civil War. Davis is the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, the highest accolade for crime writers, as well as the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens

** You may read this as 4 - 4.5 STARS!** This exciting Roman mystery is already the 9th volume of the wonderful "Flavia Albia" series, from the formidable author, Lindsey Davis. At the beginning of the book you'll notice two very well-drawn maps of the Aventine Hill and of Rome itself in AD 89, and a......more

Goodreads review by Mick

When Flavia Alba takes her 2 young nephews shopping for Saturnalia gifts, she finds the vendor stabbed to death in his tenement. The boys are full of their adventure but Flavia wants to investigate and returns to the crime scene, where the murder victim has disappeared. Apparently, it was a Saturnal......more

Goodreads review by Mary

It's Saturnillia in Rome, a time of excess and wild parties where the everyday order is overturned, slaves become masters/masters slaves (just for a day) somebody is appointed Lord of Misrule and leads the household in crazy jokes and fun. Not the time of year that anyone is looking to hire an infor......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

I have enjoyed first the Falco series and followed on with reading all of Flavia's adventures in Rome. I don't think I have missed any of the books through the years. I must say this latest book centered on the Roman Saturnalia preparations and celebrations may be my least favorite. It starts out wi......more

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