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Is every book here to be boxed into a category of "cosy", "police procedural" or "historical mystery"? 

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Book of the Month - April 2025

There Will Be Bodies

By Lindsey Davis

Published on
Hodder & Stoughton, 400 pages.
ISBN: 9781399719636

***Book of the Month April 2025***

Ten years after the eruption of Vesuvius, the surrounding countryside lies buried and barren. But the destroyed cities and luxury villas on the Bay of Naples are not utterly lost. Flavia Albia and her husband Tiberius Manlius are tasked with restoring one villa and identifying any surviving remains.

What they unearth is beyond disturbing. When the volcano erupted some people were left to their fate here, unable to escape. They included the previous owner, Publius Primus - laid out carefully and covered by falling ash.

Was Primus murdered? And, if so, why? Can Flavia Albia solve the mystery?

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Hardcover
£18.99 GBP £22.00

Crime Fiction Imprints

Specialist imprints range from the re-issuing of classic titles (British Library Publishing, Galileo Publishing, Collins Crime Club and Penguin Modern Classics - Crime and Espionage) to publishing international titles in translation or original (Bitter Lemon Press, Pushkin Vertigo), and to historical mysteries (Allison & Busby).

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