Author: Davis, Lindsey
Historical mysteries
Published on 9 October 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Flavia Albia' series.
Paperback | 400 pages
196 x 130 x 31 | 280g
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?There Will Be Bodies looks beyond the well-known tragic
events to what must have happened afterwards. It is the most intriguing crime
novel of Lindsey Davis's long and celebrated career.