The author inserts tidbits and educates us almost unknowingly as we follow the characters, trying to go about their b. At the same time, a potential young man Faustus comes looking for help with his friend Sextus. No spoilers! Highly recommended. Please try again. Then — and this is the important part — Biden will move into the White House and be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. Flavia Albia makes a good heroine and the books are entertaining as one would expect from Lindsey Davis. The point of reading a book is, surely, to uncover the story as one progresses, but suffice it to say that there are two strands which (obviously) start separately, but very quickly begin to pull together. We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter– maybe as lots of rolling waves of action or possibly as a few major tsunamis! She's sharp, and witty, and wonderful. Please try again.

Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? 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.

The Emperor is a tyrant but he is away conquering just now, so the politico is dicey for some electoral quests and judicial paths. ‘The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.”, “But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,” Faustus said quietly.

I would highly recommend reading the first two in the Flavia Albia series before reading this one though. Her Mom, Dad, sisters and brother are all on the coast for summer, as they are sane and do not want to bake in Rome.

It's even more decrepit than when he lived there 20 years before. As usual Falco and Helena are out of frame, but present nonetheless.

The very witty and wonderful, Lindsey Davis, has replaced Falco with his oldest daughter, Albia, and endowed her with the same cheek and cleverness of her dad. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published I loved the Falco novels by this author and am very much enjoying this new spin off series featuring his adopted daughter who is now making her own way as an informer in Ancient Rome. Like Domitian's return to the page, more paranoid than before. The only regret I have is that Falco has retired, but his daughter is working hard to fill the gap and is worth reading as a result. Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Flavia Albia makes a good heroine and the books are entertaining as one would expect from Lindsey Davis. Something went wrong. Written with a keen eye for character and irony and with a nice balance between authenticity and modern consciousness, I'm enjoying the Flavia Albia novels as much as the Falco novels! Flavia Albia has come into her own as a character after a bit of a shaky start.

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Albia starts looking into it. “The worse he is, the more he claims—and even believes—that”. Conditions apply.

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She is living during the time when Domitian was the tyrant of the Roman Empire.

Unfortunately my bookclub did just that.

Trump will not leave office without mass mobilization and direct action,” an Oct. 13 version of the same web page reads, according to Internet Archive records.

The Coup plotters says they plan to “do whatever it takes.”, By Joy Pullmann, The Federalist, October 20, 2020. Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016.
An interesting diversion to read during a General Election campaign, puts a perspective on a few things (as did reading some of it during very hot weather). Deadly Election.

Nice! Meanwhile, her good friend and budding romantic interest Faustus is helping a candidate in an upcoming election, and asks Albia for help in doing the traditional digging up dirt on the oppo. [8], "Deadly Election: A Flavia Albia Mystery", "A new chapter in history: The best historical fiction of spring", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deadly_Election&oldid=907111157, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 July 2019, at 15:33. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2018.

Lots of interesting characters, witty dialog, and more than one mystery to be resolved—especially when another corpse turns up in the strongbox. After bumping into her love interest, she joins a political campaign he is managing for a friend. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more underhanded and duplicitous. That’s why we’re starting this phase of the election in the streets… We need to show that we’re ungovernable under a continued Trump administration…That can mean blocking traffic at major intersections and bridges, shutting down government office buildings (why should ICE or the FBI be able to keep doing Trump’s bidding when he’s leading with a coup?!? Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father' whose traditional family values are being called into question.
This time though we get a real appearance by Petro and Maia. I just plain love these audiobooks. Buy this product and stream 90 days of Amazon Music Unlimited for free. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

In Deadly Election Davis makes us breathe the sultry Roman air as we immerse ourselves in a Rome long lost but never forgotten. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Flavia gets involved when a body turns up in a chest the family is trying to sell in an auction. Upon the retirement of her father, Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia has inherited both his auction house and his clients as a private informer and sometime-sleuth. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Please try your request again later.

I must have missed something somewhere, as Uncle Falco owns the auction house.

Mystery meets adventure on the canyon's Colorado River.

The only regret I have is that Falco has retired, but his daughter is working hard to fill the gap and is worth reading as a result. Really close...but i feel like things are still being set up for later books. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. A damn good read for fans of Historic Crime Fiction.’ – Crimewarp.