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From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the fourth novel in her all-new series set in ancient Rome. Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor...

Emperor Domitian is hosting a banquet for the senators in honour of fallen soldiers, and it's an invitation Aelianus and Justinus Camillus dare not refuse. On arrival, they enter a black-painted room furnished with couches resembling those found in mausoleums, complete with a tombstone bearing...

Lindsey Davis drops by the Audible Studios to talk about her career as a historical novelist; how she develop her characters, how historically accurate are they, where her inspiration come from and more.

Do you struggle with your relationship with food? Are you tired of chasing diets and feeling like a failure? Emotional eating (stress eating, binge eating) can feel like a never-ending cycle of guilt and shame. You turn to food for comfort or stress relief, but the relief is only temporary, and the weight gain and health consequences can be long-lasting.

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.

In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political—because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down. This time a commission shows up on her doorstep—someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different.

In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth - a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim - in Lindsey Davis' next historical mystery, The Grove of the Caesars. At the feet of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost - always keep one's distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that direction. But right behind it - murder is the business of the Vigiles, best to leave them to it.

První díl úspěšné řady Marcus Didius Falco představuje soukromého informátora Falca, který se z Říma vypraví do Británie, aby odhalil politické spiknutí a vyšetřil krádež stříbra. Řím, rok 70. U moci je nový císař. Proudy peněz a moci jsou v pohybu a zlověstné římské hry víří zuřivěji než kdy jindy. Soukromý informátor Falco narazí na Fóru na mladinkou dívku a zachrání ji z nesnází. Tím začíná nebezpečná hra, jejíž součástí je boj o imperiální ingoty ukradené z britských dolů a temné politické spiknutí.