Desperate Undertaking
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Desperate Undertaking
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Jane Collingwood
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Jane Collingwood
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Lindsey Davis
About this listen
Rome, the very end of December. The Field of Mars is packed with monuments, none more beautiful than Domitian's new Odeon and Stadium. But the area has been overtaken by ugly events: elaborately staged murders. Someone bears a spectacular grudge against the theatrical community, and intends to get revenge in the most spectacular way possible. The killer's method is to re-enact bloody scenes from the gruesome side of popular theatre, where characters in plays really die on stage.
A figure from the past wants Flavia Albia's father to investigate, but Falco is out of Rome for the holidays. Albia seizes the commission. And begins to regret doing so almost immediately. 'The undertaker did it!' the first victim croaks before expiring. This seems to make no sense, because surely people are already dead when they go to their funeral?
Though there is a serial killer at large, the authorities would prefer a cover-up but Albia is driven to discover what is going on. How much blood must be shed before the mania ends? And could her own family be on the list for a frightful stage death?
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2022 Lindsey Davis
Critic Reviews
Ancient Rome rocks thanks to this bestseller. She has the skills to have you shaking your toga with giggles one minute, and gasping the next a gruesome turn of events
Fiendishly twisted mystery
As ever, Davis transports us to a superbly realised ancient world full of persuasive detail
Great fun, shot through with sharp observations
We find Flavia, Faustus and various Vigiles hunting
an unknown figure - from her parents past;
around Rome on a death by mythological method marathon.
Excellent incorporation of past Falco into Flavia’s future,
a brillig reason to re-read Last Act in Palmyra.
Bravo Lindsey, looking forward to more murder and mayhem
under the Mediterranean sun, thank you :-)
The first of Flavia’s finest…
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great book, fantastic narrator
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