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Fiction, Historical mysteries, Historical adventure, Historical fiction
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- Paperback Dec 8, 2015 | 9781444794182 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Dec 8, 2015 | 9781444794182 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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- e-Book Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444794205 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Dec 8, 2015 | 9781444794182 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444794199 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444794205 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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From the creator of Falco comes Falco: the new generation, featuring her unforgettable heroine Flavia Albia in her third novel.
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.
Praise for Deadly Election
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Praise for THE IDES OF APRIL:
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Davis was primus and still has no pares ... The auguries promise a long, successful series. - Telegraph
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Sadly, after 20 novels, Lindsey Davis is no longer chronicling the adventures of Marcus Didius Falco, her private eye in Ancient Rome. But fear not. With the Ides of April, she has only stepped down a generation. Enter the feisty, savvy and attractive Flavia Albia ... Davis continues her wonderful portrayal of the city and its inhabitants, and the delightful Flavia Alba adds an important element - the complicated status of working women. - The Times
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This is a welcome return to the familiar territory of ancient Rome. - Literary Review
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Lindsey Davis's many fans will have been made anxious by the news that she is embarking on a news series with a new sleuth. They need not worry. Marcus Didius Falco's adopted daughter, Flavia Albia, is a wonderful creation, rendered with a surprising tenderness ... Just as closely researched and yet light-hearted as the Falco novels, The Ides of April is more touching. - Bookoxygen
Lindsey Davis
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 in 2014 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, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia, set in that dark period.
Her books are translated and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. 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 the inaugural winner of the Barcino (Barcelona) International Historical Novel Prize.
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