Deadly Election : A Flavia Albia Mystery

from passion4reading

Having been temporarily laid low with dysentery at the end of the previous book, Enemies at Home, Flavia Albia is now itching to get back to Rome and to work - not that there's much going on in the city during the July heat apart from several aedilate candidates standing for election, and the sma...

from JalenV

Deadly Election, the third volume in the Flavia Albia series, is almost as much fun as reading one of the 20 volumes in the Marcus Didius Falco series. Albia's comments about Roman life, other characters, and events are every bit as sarcastic as her adoptive parents made. (Alas, Falco and Helena ...

from TadAD

I enjoy the characters because they are, mostly, old friends. However, the plot of this one was lackluster. The mystery was ho-hum. The reveal was anticlimactic. The protagonists weren't even threatened with so much as a hangnail. There wasn't an ounce of tension anywhere, even in the love depart...

from Pmaurer

Another tale of ancient times - this time, describing the election process. Not as interesting as previous novels about Flavia, but worth listening to.