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The Grove of the Caesars: Flavia Albia, Book 8 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Lindsey Davis (Author), Jane Collingwood (Narrator), Hodder & Stoughton (Publisher)

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Julius Caesar left his gardens to the citizens of Rome, a peaceful sanctuary across the Tiber. Now the gardens and their sacred grove are dangerous haunts, especially for women alone.

'Don't go to the Grove,' people mutter, but when her husband has to leave Rome, it falls to Albia to supervise his building project in an old grotto. Why has someone buried tattered scrolls by obscure philosophers - and does it involve a worse crime than terrible writing?

Soon that puzzle is overtaken. A woman disappears from her husband's birthday party; she meets a dire fate, then Albia learns that on the same night, two louche slaves given to her family by the brooding Emperor Domitian also vanished in the gardens.

Apparently, it is well known that a killer lurks there. The vigiles have failed to investigate properly for decades and this won't improve when the sinister agent Karus arrives. Albia must co-operate, in order to give the many victims justice and find answers for grieving relatives. But can she herself remain safe? And, after others have failed, can she at last identify the predator who has made the Grove his killing ground?

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Listening Length	11 hours and 35 minutes
Author	Lindsey Davis
Narrator	Jane Collingwood
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	02 April 2020
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07Z9J4XHT
Best Sellers Rank	30,544 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 23 in Ancient History Fiction 307 in International Mystery & Crime (Audible Books & Originals) 1,576 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)

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Sweet Bippy

Always Dependable for Ancient Rome

Reviewed in Australia on 16 May 2020

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We're avid archaeology buffs, and Lindsey never, ever, fails to paint a picture of ancient Rome, in a way that resounds to modern life. It's easy to fall into the old ways, and to understand why's and wherefores. Love her books and the different series. First found at an airport, I've chased the whole series of Ms Davis books ever since, it's been a long time but always enjoyable.

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Dr. M L Price

Best Albia yet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2020

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I like the way that Albia has 'grown' up from being a teen in Britain to a widow in Rome. In anticipation of this new book I've re-read all of the Albia books over the past couple of months .. and just finished The Grove of the Caesars. I think that it's the best of the series so far and that's saying something since I've liked all of them. I've been a Davis fan ever since I stumbled upon Silver Pigs just after it was published in the USA. I was working on my Ph.D. and was desperate for something to read that wasn't academic stuff. I was browsing the 'New Books' section in the uni library and the title caught my attention. I read it, loved it and ended up buying it, and all the others as the years and career moved on. I now have everything in both print and Kindle.

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R. Sturge

I liked it better than capitol death

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2020

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I'm trying to warm to Albia but I can't like her as much as her dad! I also think her husband is a bit of a plot nuisance to the author! He's always being ill, or sent off to deal with family business as in this book, so LD doesn't have to think what to do with him. Tiberius and Albia aren't really a team in the way that Falco and Helena were. Albia is too independent for team work? Probably. I can see he is going to end up as a stay at home husband looking after the little nephews while she solves crimes and bosses the workforce in the builders' yard.

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Serial murder and forgery...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2020

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... occupy Albia while her husband is away for family reasons. We get to see more of Rome, and the Lads from their building company; a lot more of her household that gains two lads (see the short story Invitation to Die to find out how her Uncles ended up with these gifts from the Emperor), looses two lads and then - but that would be a spoiler. And forging ancient manuscripts. And gardens.
Which is where we start this story, with Albia in a sarcastic, biting mood...
But isn't she always?!

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S F Canfield

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 April 2020

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Another well-crafted story from the author, but that's just what you expect from Lindsey. A really obnoxious serial killer is eventually unmasked by our Albia. She also manages to uncover another murderess and clarifies the long-lost/forged scrolls saga. Has a fountain built at home; buys a new donkey; becomes an adopted-parent; makes a profit on goods auctioned, and all in a fortnight whilst her husband is away. A wonderful read.

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Back on for(u)m.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2020

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A great story, thank Jupiter. Flavia - sorry - Albia, has given up steering the tourists around Rome and is investigating a decent mystery. Or two. The first, scrolls by ancient philosophers found in an area being cleared by the builder's (Tiberius) boys. Second a poor woman foully murdered in the outskirts of a family party. All in the gardens created by the Caesers. We are back to having fun, jokes, a vigile , Ursus, who has a brain (not another joke) , but sadly we also have an absent Tiberius. His pregnant sister is ill off in the country. He goes to see her. We are never left in doubt of the love between Albia and Tiberius but due to her traumatic beginnings, job as an informer, and the dangers for women giving birth , there seems little hope of her ever passing on a combination of the genes of Tiberius and herself. That makes me sad. Just as I loved, love, Falco I also love Tiberius. Please, Lindsey, give the poor guy a break and ease up on the misery. Apart from all that this story of a forger and a serial killer actually ends thrillingly. Lindsey Davis back on form. Thoroughly recommended.

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