Voices of RomeLindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome. Here, for the first time in book form, are four novella length stories written to illuminate her unparalleled output of the last 30 years. The Bride from Bithynia tells the story of Aelia

What could possibly go wrong

it was like I had a secret

the Night Climbers' funding suddenly dries up

While Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughters husband

seven people have been murdered

irreverent

to ride his special horse on the town carousel

this Malice Box

At the same time Hemingway offers an often complex and deeply personal self-portrait that reveals much about one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers

Finn's masters in London are blinded by the new wealth pouring out of Russia and he must leave the Service and work in secrecy to uncover the deadly threat it poses to the freedom of every one of us

Her mother wouldn't explain properly

But as their deadline looms