![]() Cover of 1st UK hardback edition 2024 | |
Author | Lindsey Davis |
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Series | Flavia Albia |
Genre | historical fiction, crime fiction |
Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 4 April 2024 |
Publication place | UK |
ISBN | 978-1399719612 |
Preceded by | Fatal Legacy |
Death on the Tiber is a historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the twelfth in her Flavia Albia series. It was published in the UK on 4 April 2024 by Hodder & Stoughton ( ISBN 978-1399719612) [1] and in the United States on 23 July 2024 by Minotaur Books ( ISBN 978-1250799906). [2]
The book is set in Rome and Ostia in AD 90. [3]: xi The list of characters includes Marcus Didio Falco ("one-time hero; has he still got it?") and Helena Justina ("his wife, an absoluter heroine") from the Falco series, vigiles from seven cohorts, and members of five underworld gangs. [3]: xiii–xvii Davis has said that the plot involves a corpse dredged out of the Tiber, the "ever-warring gangster community", "the failings of the various public bodies who are supposed to tackle crime and threats to the community" and "a very elaborate joke about crime writing". [4]
The book refers to events from Davis's earlier book The Jupiter Myth.
The cover of the first UK hardback edition shows a barnacle-encrusted vase on a river-bed with blood flowing out of it. [1] The cover of the first American edition shows a woman looking over the Tiber. [2]