| The Grove of the Caesars | |
| Country: | UK |
| Series: | Flavia Albia |
| Genre: | historical fiction, crime fiction |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Publisher2: | St. Martin's Press |
| Pub Date: | 2 April 2020 |
| Media Type: | Print, e-book, audiobook, large print |
| Isbn: | 9781529374247 |
| Preceded By: | A Capitol Death |
| Followed By: | A Comedy of Terrors |
The Grove of the Caesars is a historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the eighth in her Flavia Albia series. It was published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton on 2 April 2020 .[1] [2]
The story is set in 1st century Rome, in and around the gardens beyond the Tiber, and features a serial killer, a buried collection of ancient scrolls, a shipwreck, a sad pair of dancing boys and much else. It reflects on the follies of the world of antiquarian scroll-collecting, with special reference to the writer Didymus Dodomos, described in the list of characters as "a ghastly horticulturalist, ghost-written".[3]