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Desperate Undertaking audiobook
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrator: Jane Collingwood
- Category: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
- Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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Desperate Undertaking Audiobook Summary
“The clear, sometimes biting voice of narrator Jane Collingwood delivers the tenth installment of the Flavia Albia mystery series, set in Imperial Rome. Many characters make appearances, and Collingwood manages to bring them to life despite the nearly two millennia that separate them from listeners.” – AudioFile on Desperate Undertaking
In Lindsey Davis’s next audiobook in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death.
In the first century, under Domitian’s reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father’s business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political – because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she’s not very good at turning them down.
This time a commission shows up on her doorstep – someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different. So far, the only clue was the phrase that one survivor managed to croak, “The undertaker did it…” With little to go on and bodies starting to pile up, Albia has to unravel the strangest mystery of her career in short order if she’s to stop this dismaying orgy of murder.
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Desperate Undertaking Audiobook Narrator
Jane Collingwood is the narrator of Desperate Undertaking audiobook that was written by Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, England. After taking an English degree at Oxford and working for the civil service for thirteen years, she “ran away to be a writer.” Her internationally bestselling novels featuring ancient Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco include Venus in Copper, The Iron Hand of Mars, Nemesis and Alexandria. She is also the author of Rebels and Traitors, set during the English Civil War. Davis is the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, the highest accolade for crime writers, as well as the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award.
About the Author(s) of Desperate Undertaking
Lindsey Davis is the author of Desperate Undertaking
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Desperate Undertaking Full Details
| Narrator | Jane Collingwood |
| Length | 11 hours 58 minutes |
| Author | Lindsey Davis |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | July 26, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250869678 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Desperate Undertaking is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
Additional info
The publisher of the Desperate Undertaking is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250869678.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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