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Death on the Tiber 2024
Death on the Tiber is a historical crime novel written by British author Lindsey Davis, marking the twelfth entry in her Flavia Albia series. Published in the UK on 4 April 2024 by Hodder & Stoughton (), it appeared in the United States on 23 July 2024 through Minotaur Books ().
Set in Rome and Ostia during AD90, the novel features characters including Marcus Didio Falco ("one-time hero; has he still got it?") and Helena Justina ("his wife, an absoluter heroine") from the Falco series, along with vigiles from seven cohorts and members of five underworld gangs. According to Davis, the plot centers on a corpse pulled from 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".
The story references events from Davis’s earlier work The Jupiter Myth.
The first UK hardback edition displays a barnacle-encrusted vase on a river-bed with blood flowing out of it. The initial American edition shows a woman gazing over the Tiber.
Details
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN
- 9781399719612
- Series
- Flavia Albia
