Desperate Undertaking

Author : Lindsey Davis
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250799899
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desperate Undertaking written by Lindsey Davis and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lindsey Davis's next book 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.

Author : Lindsey Davis
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 125002370X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ides of April written by Lindsey Davis and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falco: The Next Generation––Flavia Albia has taken up her father's profession. Only, now Rome is a more dangerous, mercurial place than it was back in dear old dad's day . . . Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia has taken over her father's old ramshackle digs at Fountain Court in the Surbura district, where she plies her trade with energy, determination, and the usual Falco luck. Recently hired to help investigate a fatal accident, she finds herself stuck with a truly awful person for a client and facing a well-heeled, well-connected opponent. That is, until her client unexpectedly dies under what might be called "suspicious circumstances." While this is not a huge loss for society, it is a loss for Flavia Albia's pocket. Even worse, it's just one of a series of similar deaths for which she now finds herself under suspicion. Before things go from abysmal to worse, Flavia must sort out what is happening, and who is responsible, in Lindsey Davis' The Ides of April.

Author : Audrey Magee
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443422983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undertaking written by Audrey Magee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutal yet heartbreaking, The Undertaking is an immensely powerful first novel set in Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises "honeymoon" leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin, and both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to . . .

Author : Southern Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Southern Historical Society written by Southern Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451476158
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Perilous Undertaking written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.

Author : Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America (LONDON)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American War: the mode in which it is waged by the Federals, as recorded by both parties. New and enlarged edition written by Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America (LONDON) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danica Novgorodoff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596435860
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undertaking of Lily Chen written by Danica Novgorodoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
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Download or read book Columbus and Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Castlemon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Young Wild-fowlers written by Harry Castlemon and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a group of boys, one of whom was shanghaied and escaped.