Deadly Election: A Flavia Albia Mystery (Flavia Albia Mystery, #3) (Flavia Albia, #3)

by Lindsey Davis

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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.

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.

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.

  • ISBN10 1466869186
  • ISBN13 9781466869189
  • Publish Date 14 July 2015 (first published 9 April 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Minotaur Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 352
  • Language English