2023/097: Deadly Election — Lindsay Davis

2023/097: Deadly Election — Lindsay Davis

I could have been married. I simply preferred to keep looking for a man whose habits and personality did not fill me with rage. [loc. 726]

Set in Rome in 89CE, this is the third in the Flavia Albia series, following The Ides of April and Enemies at Home. Albia is still not sure whether the aedile Manlius Faustus fancies her (she bemoans having found 'the last chaste man in Rome') but there's plenty to distract her: the candidates vying to be elected as aedile for the coming year, one of whom has enlisted Albia to dig up slander and sleaze on the others; four sisters all named Julia; their mother, noted in the character list as 'the mother-in-law from Hades'; a body in a stringbox (in July, in Rome: the smell is appalling); and a dog named Incitatus, who behaves very badly.

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