There Will Be Bodies

Author: Lindsey Davis

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 31mm | 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.