From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Lindsey Davis; Full-cast dramatisation
starring Anton Lesser as Falco, with Anna Madeley as Helena Justina;
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.

Against his better judgement, Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of
a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian, then heads for the beautiful
Bay of Naples with his friend Petronius. He conveniently forgets to mention
to his companion that this will be no holiday. They have been sent to
investigate the murderous members of a failed coup, now sunning themselves
in luxurious villas and on fancy yachts in Neapolis, Capreae and Pompeii.
The idyllic seaside location fails to help his doomed romance with Helena
Justina, whom Falco met and courted so stormily in The Silver Pigs.
The deeper he probes, the more it seems that Helena is inextricably
connected to the elite plotters, in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear
to contemplate...

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