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 s
eries set in ancient Rome.
We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted
daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much
a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the
Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. An outsid
er in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, an
d she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no
man could ask.
