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Saturnalia
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099493839
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Saturnalia

(Falco 18)

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1 Mar 2011
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1 Apr 2008
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One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series

‘We should have time to manage it … and still get back to the party before the wine runs out.’

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness – then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.

Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities, for Helena’s brother Justinus has also vanished. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule, the search seems impossible and only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets…
  • Published: 1 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099493839
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Lindsey Davis

Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including in 2014 A Cruel Fate, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with Master and God, a standalone novel, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia, set in that dark period.

Her books are translated and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her many awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Most recently she was awarded the City of Ubeda Historical Novel Prize, also for lifetime achievement.

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Also by Lindsey Davis

Falco: The Complete BBC Radio collection
A Body In The Bath House
Nemesis
Rebels and Traitors
Falco: The Official Companion
Alexandria
A Dying Light In Corduba
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Praise for Saturnalia

Like visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skulduggery crowd the pages

Guardian

Every book in this series is a delight... fans will snap it up. Highly recommended

Library Journal

Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside...Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted - real fun

Time Magazine

One of the best in this series, a nice mix of wit and wisecracks

Literary Review

Rome is vividly brought to life - alien yet curiously familiar. And the story gallops along at a tremendous pace with humour and suspense dispensed in equal measure. Saturnalia is another rollicking good yarn

Daily Express

Wit, excitement and surprises in ancient Rome

Woman & Home

Another entertaining adventure

Sunday Telegraph

Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside . . . Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted - real fun

Time Magazine
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