Desperate Undertaking

Lindsey Davis

H&S €28

Lindsey Davis’s series of detective novels set in ancient Rome offers a wonderfully believable picture of a world strangely similar to our own. This time the setting is the remarkably gruesome Roman theatreland, where public executions could be incorporated into the action of a play. A killer is using this contrivance to wreak vengeance on their enemies. Redoubtable sleuth Flavia Alba needs all her reserves of charm and guile to solve this fiendishly twisted mystery.