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The Ides of April

By Lindsey Davis

The Ides of April Action & Adventure

The Ides of April

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Chosen by The Times as one of the Top Ten Crime Novels Written by Women since 2000 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 ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances. Albia investigates and discovers there have been many other strange deaths all over the city, yet she is warned off by the authorities. The vigils are incompetent. The 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. While Albia and her allies search for him, he stalks them through familiar byways and brings murder ever closer to home. The Ides of April is vintage Lindsey Davis, offering wit, intrigue, action and a brilliant new heroine who promises to be as celebrated as Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina, her fictional predecessors.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2013-09-26
Publication Date:
2013-09-26
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1444755846
ISBN13:
9781444755848
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
269 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm

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