The Pirates of Pompeii, Caroline Lawrence
The Pirates of Pompeii, Caroline Lawrence
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The Pirates of Pompeii
The Roman Mysteries Book 3

Author: Caroline Lawrence

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2005


Synopsis

It is late August of ad 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red, and the sea gives up corpses of the dead.

At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities around Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. When children begin to go missing from the camp, Flavia Gemina and her friends Jonathan, Nubia, and Lupus investigate a powerful and charismatic man known as the Patron. A dangerous trail leads them to the caves and grottoes of Sorrento, where they encounter pirates, slave dealers—and death.

About The Author

Caroline Lawrence grew up in California. She moved to England when she won a scholarship to Cambridge University to study Classical Archaeology, which she followed with a degree in Hebrew and Jewish studies at the University of London. She lives by the Thames river in London with her husband, a graphic designer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jane on April 11, 2015

This is the third novel in Caroline Lawrence’s highly successful Roman Mysteries series which recount the adventures of four young friends in Roman times. The setting for this historical novel is the refugee camp just near Pompeii in the few days after the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius in AD 79.......more