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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.



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Deadly Election

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      Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
      Published 22 October 2015
      ISBN-13 9781444794182
      978-1444794182
      ISBN-10 1444794183
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      Crime & Thrillers Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      Davis blends wit and research with a cracking plot. -- Saturday Review * The Times *

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