The Third Nero
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<font size="+1">'Davis's prose is a lively joy, and Flavia's Rome is sinister and gloriously real' The Times on Saturday</font>
Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled and they have no funds. So when Palace officials ask her to expose a traitor in their midst she is ready for the task.Ever since the Emperor Nero committed suicide in AD 68, Rome has been haunted by reports that he is actually alive and ready to reclaim his throne. Two Nero pretenders have emerged from the East and met grisly fates.But now a new pretender has been smuggled into Rome by the traitor. Flavia must negotiate with spies, dodge assassins and reveal this third Nero before he can make his move. Will she act in time or will Rome once more be plunged into civil war?Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781473613454
- Author: Lindsey Davis
- Pub date: 12.12.17
- RRP: $27.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis has been a historical novelist for thirty-five years. She began writing about the Romans with The Course of Honour. the real life love story of the Emperor Vespasian and Antonia Caenis. She is best known for her twenty-book adventure series about Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco and his partner Helena Justina. Master and God, about the paranoid tyrant Domitian, led to a second Roman detective series, featuring Flavia Albia, also set in that dark period.
Her books are translated into many languages and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. She has been Honorary President of the UK Classical Association, Chair of the UK Crimewriter's Association, Chair of the UK Society of Authors and president of the Birmingham and Midlands Institute. Her awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement and, in 2023, the Ivanhoe award at the Historical Novel Festival in Ubeda, Spain.Other books by the author
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