Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides (USA 2017)

From the Publisher:
In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases -- cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till -- but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together. Also, his contracting firm has been renovating a rundown dive bar called The Garden of the Hesperides, only to uncover human remains buried in the backyard. There have been rumors for years that the previous owner of the bar, now deceased, killed a bar maid and these are presumably her remains. In the choice between planning a wedding and looking into a crime from long ago, Albia would much rather investigate a possible murder. Or murders, as more and more remains are uncovered, revealing that something truly horrible has been going on at the Hesperides.

As she gets closer to the truth behind the bodies in the backyard, Albia's investigation has put her in the cross-hairs -- which might be the only way she'll get out of the wedding and away from all her relatives who are desperate to 'help.'

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides. A Flavia Albia Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9781250131157 (May, 2017), 336 p., $16.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
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.

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 outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask.

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides. A Flavia Albia Novel. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781473613393 (October, 2016), 403 p., £8.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases -- cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till -- but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together. Also, his contracting firm has been renovating a rundown dive bar called The Garden of the Hesperides, only to uncover human remains buried in the backyard. There have been rumors for years that the previous owner of the bar, now deceased, killed a bar maid and these are presumably her remains. In the choice between planning a wedding and looking into a crime from long ago, Albia would much rather investigate a possible murder. Or murders, as more and more remains are uncovered, revealing that something truly horrible has been going on at the Hesperides.

As she gets closer to the truth behind the bodies in the backyard, Albia's investigation has put her in the cross-hairs -- which might be the only way she'll get out of the wedding and away from all her relatives who are desperate to 'help.'

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides. A Flavia Albia Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9781250078902 (July, 2016), 325 p., $26.99.

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
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...

Lindsey Davis: The Graveyard of the Hesperides. A Flavia Albia Novel. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781473613362 (April, 2016), 386 p., £18.99.