There Will Be Bodies
 Cover of 1st UK hardback edition 2025 | |
| Author | Lindsey Davis |
|---|---|
| Series | Flavia Albia |
| Genre | historical fiction, crime fiction |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 3 April 2025 |
| Publication place | UK |
| ISBN | 978-1399719636 |
| Preceded by | Death on the Tiber |
There Will Be Bodies is a forthcoming historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the thirteenth in her Flavia Albia series. It will be published in the UK on 3 April 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (ISBN 978-1399719636)[1] and in the United States on 22 July 2025 by Minotaur Books (ISBN 978-1250906731).[2]
The book is set in Stabiae, near Mount Vesuvius, Italy, in 89AD, ten years after its eruption.[3] Flavia's husband's uncle has bought a villa there, and while working on its reconstruction Flavia and her husband find the body of its previous owner: not overwhelmed in the eruption but laid out in a locked store room.[1][2]
The cover of the first UK hardback edition shows a battered sculptured head half-buried in glowing embers.[1] Davis has said that it represents Tyche, goddess of fortune and owner of the first set of dice, wearing a mural crown.[4] The American first edition cover shows a woman with a dagger looking through the atrium of a villa towards a man with his back to her: Vesuvius is visible in the distance.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "There Will Be Bodies [publisher's announcement]". Hoder & Stoughton. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ a b c "There Will Be Bodies [publisher's announcement]". Macmillan. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ "Lindsey's Page". Lindsey Davis. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ In official newsletter, 6 January 2025, from publishers Hodder and Stoughton: better ref will follow in due time.
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