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Goldsboro Books

9780091748180

Venus in Copper

Venus in Copper

by Lindsey Davis

Publisher Hutchinson

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Fine first edition, with slight lean to spine and some yellowing to page block. Very slight turn in to top back corner. In fine unclipped dust jacket with very slight bruising to top back corner.

About the book

Rats are always bigger than you expect

Falco, ancient Romes hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent though being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarassing. His high-born girlfriend cant decide if she wants him, and Titus Caesars reward for past services is a wet fish. Hoping for a better life, or at least a better apartment, he takes on new clients.

On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three nouveau riche freedmen with two flashy wives are under siege by a clever redhead. Severina Zotica has a foul-mouthed parrot, an odd connection with a snake dancer and a very suspicious past. As he pursues this flame-haired fortune-hunter, Falco finds himself beset by violent rentracketeers, poisoners, and women without consciences who have dangerous designs on him

About the Author

Lindsey Davis

Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including in 2014 A Cruel Fate, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with Master and God, a standalone novel, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia, set in that dark period.


Her books are translated and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her many awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Most recently she was the inaugural winner of the Barcino (Barcelona) International Historical Novel Prize.

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