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Deadly Election

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@2@In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end.@3@@2@The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly knows to be the last chaste man in Rome. But he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father', whose traditional family values are being called into question. Even more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit.@3@@2@As Albia's and Faustus' professional and personal partnership deepens they have to accept that, for others, obsession can turn sour, and become a deadly strain that leads, tragically, to murder.@3@

About the author

Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including A Cruel Fate, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with Master and God, a standalone novel set in that dark period, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia.

Her books are translated and five radio dramas are regularly rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4X. Her many awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Most recently she was awarded the Ivanhoe Prize for lifetime achievement in historical fiction, given by the Spanish City of Ubeda.

She has been the Chair of the UK Crimewriters' Association, Honorary President of the UK Classical Association, President of the Birmingham and Midlands Institute and is a Fellow of the UK Society of Authors.

www.lindseydavis.co.uk

Lindsey Davis - The Crime Writers' Association (thecwa.co.uk)

Product details

Authors Lindsey Davis, Davis Lindsey
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.10.2015
 
EAN 9781444794182
ISBN 978-1-4447-9418-2
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 26 mm
Series Flavia Albia
Flavia Albia
Subjects Fiction > Suspense

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, Historical adventure, Historical adventure fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Flavia albia falco; falco; lindsey davis; ancient rome

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