Flavia Albia book 10 · 2022
Desperate Undertaking
Someone is staging elaborate murders in some of Rome’s most beautiful buildings, and Albia must stop the killer with only a dying man’s warning to go on.
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Book facts
- Author
- Lindsey Davis
- Series
- Flavia Albia, book 10 of 14
- Published
- 2022
- Setting
- Set in Rome
- Characters charted
- 4
- Chart confidence
- Low
Who is in Desperate Undertaking
4 recurring or key characters from Lindsey Davis’s chart.
Lead 1
- Flavia AlbiaBritish-born orphan adopted by Falco and Helena, later an informer
Major 1
- Manlius FaustusAedile and Albia’s partner, later husband
Minor and cameo 2
- Marcus Didius FalcoInformer and imperial agent in first-century Rome
- Helena JustinaSenator’s daughter who becomes Falco’s partner and wife
Also featuring these characters
Other Lindsey Davis books that share the most characters with Desperate Undertaking.
- The Grove of the Caesars2020 · Flavia Albia · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Death on the Tiber2024 · Flavia Albia · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- A Capitol Death2019 · Flavia Albia · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- There Will Be Bodies2025 · Flavia Albia · 4 shared charactersBuy on Amazon