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  Author Lindsey Davis
  Country United Kingdom
  Language English
  Series Marcus Didius Falco
  Genre Crime
  Publisher Century, UK , Mysterious Press, US
  Release Date 1995
  Media Type Print (Hardcover)
  Isbn 0-89296-626-2
  Preceded By Last Act In Palmyra
  Followed By A Dying Light In Corduba


''Time to Depart'' is a Crime Novel by Lindsey Davis , first published in 1995 , in the United Kingdom by Century , London and in 1997 in the United States by Mysterious Press . It is the seventh Marcus Didius Falco novel, with seventeen published as of 2006.


PLOT SUMMARY


Falco's closest friend, Petronius Longus, has finally caught one of the leading criminals in Rome, Balbinus Pius. But a quirk in Roman law allows a convicted felon, even a murderer, time to depart before the sentence is carried out. Balbinus' departure has left a vacuum in the underworld of Rome, and there is a crowd of criminals trying desperately to fill the void. Their first step is to engineer a robbery that reverberates throughout the city.

Falco is again called upon by the Emperor Vespasian to supply answers, as quietly and quickly as possible. A couple of murders, a kidnapping or two, and more suspects that Falco cares to count takes him, and his patrician wife Helena, to places a family shouldn't have to go.