| Fatal Legacy | |
| Country: | UK |
| Series: | Flavia Albia |
| Genre: | historical fiction, crime fiction |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Pub Date: | 6 April 2023 |
| Isbn: | 9781529354737 |
| Preceded By: | Desperate Undertaking |
Fatal Legacy is a historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the eleventh in her Flavia Albia series. It was published in the UK on 6 April 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton [1] and in the United States on 18 July 2023 by Minotaur Books .[2]
The plot, set in Rome in AD 90, involves, amongst other aspects of Roman life: an unpaid bar bill; a missing will and codicil; a rabbit farm; an orchard planted variously with walnuts, apricots and cherries; freed slaves; suspicious deaths; and feuding families with labyrinthine family trees.[3] Before publication, the author wrote: "The joke of this plot is that it is impossible to summarise".[4] It takes place on the Aventine and Caelian hills and at the Forum Romanum.
The cover of the first UK hardback edition shows a pair of shears against a mosaic showing a rabbit. The cover of the first American edition shows a woman holding a large dagger behind her back, and an armoured Roman soldier, inside a building.