![]() Cover of 1st UK hardback edition 2024 | |
Author | Lindsey Davis |
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Country | UK |
Series | Flavia Albia |
Genre | historical fiction, crime fiction |
Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 4 April 2024 |
ISBN | 978-1399719612 |
Preceded by | Fatal Legacy |
Death on the Tiber is a historical novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the twelfth in her Flavia Albia series. It is to be published in the UK on 4 April 2024 by Hodder & Stoughton (ISBN 978-1399719612)[1] and in the United States on 23 July 2024 by Minotaur Books (ISBN 978-1250799906).[2]
Davis has said that the plot involves a corpse dredged out of the Tiber, the "ever-warring gangster community", "the failings of the various public bodies who are supposed to tackle crime and threats to the community" and "a very elaborate joke about crime writing".[3]
The cover of the first UK hardback edition shows a barnacle-encrusted vase on a river-bed with blood flowing out of it.[1] The cover of the first American edition shows a woman looking over the Tiber.[2]