Fatal Legacy
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In first century Rome, Flavia Albia takes on an easy case that soon proves to be anything but as, at every turn, bodies—old and new—dog her path.
Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer. She only has two hard and fast rules - avoid political cases and family cases because nothing good comes of either of them. Unfortunately, since Albia isn't good at avoiding either, it's really more of a guideline. So when her Aunt Junia demands Albia track down a couple of deadbeats who owe her money, it's an offer Albia can't refuse.
It turns out to be a relatively easy job, requiring only some half-hearted blackmail, and it leads to some new work - tracking down some essential paperwork for the debtor family. But nothing is truly easy in Rome - if Albia doesn't find the paperwork that proves that family's ancestor was a properly freed slave, the family could lose everything. The more she digs, the more skeletons she finds in their closet, until murder in the past leads to murder in the present. Now, it's serious, even deadly, and Albia has precious little time to uncover the
truth.
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Lindsey Davis. (2023). Fatal Legacy. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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In first century Rome, Flavia Albia takes on an easy case that soon proves to be anything but as, at every turn, bodies—old and new—dog her path.
Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer. She only has two hard and fast rules - avoid political cases and family cases because nothing good comes of either of them. Unfortunately, since Albia isn't good at avoiding either, it's really more of a guideline. So when her Aunt Junia demands Albia track down a couple of deadbeats who owe her money, it's an offer Albia can't refuse.
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"The plot thickens with every baffling revelation... Capital crimes lie at the roots of the mystery, but its sweet spots are the complexities of Roman society and the tragic crosscurrents of family dynamics."
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First, Aunt Junia asks Flavia Albia to locate some lowlifes who owe her money. Then the lowlifes ask her to locate paperwork proving that an ancestor was properly freed from enslavement--or they'll lose everything--and past murder results in present bloodshed. Next in a long-running series; with a 30,000-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.
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Davis’s 11th historical mystery featuring first-century Roman private informer Albia (after 2022’s Desperate Undertaking) is more low-key than past entries, but no less gripping. Flavia, the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco (hero of a prior Davis series), is asked by her Aunt Junia, who manages a grubby feeding post, to track down two customers who stiffed her. With only vague descriptions to go on, Flavia flexes her investigative skills to track down the deadbeats, only to land a more challenging assignment from one of their aunts after she confronts them. Tranquilla Euhodia’s niece is about to be married, but her future in-laws have raised questions about whether Euhodia’s brother is a free citizen, as he claims to be, or a slave. Flavia agrees to find proof that the boy is free, digging into an old murder in the process—and before long, she has a new murder to investigate. Unable to trust her employers or old confidants, Albia sets out to prevent more bodies from piling up. As always, Davis skillfully blends humor and historical detail. This classical series still feels fresh.
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The plot thickens with every baffling revelation in a singularly challenging investigation in Rome in 90 C.E. Flavia Albia finds herself in an awkward spot when her aunt Junia presses her to track down the despicable duo who've just dined and dashed after enjoying a meal at the Stargazer, the "greasy spoon" (Flavia's words) Junia manages. Such a paltry infraction seems more trouble than it's worth, but Flavia feels compassion for Junia's deaf son, Junillus, who failed to catch the miscreants as he worked at the Stargazer. Additional empathy comes from the fact that, like Junillus, Flavia was an abandoned child rescued when she was adopted, in her case by the renowned sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. Family dynamics become an important theme in Flavia's 11th case, whose tangled plot resembles a scavenger hunt, each new discovery leading to another minor puzzle to untangle. The first twist comes when, after considerable legwork, Flavia solves the original puzzle but accepts another, trickier one from the aunt of the miscreant Tranquilla Euhodia. Euhodia's niece Sabatina plans to marry, but her father, Postuminus, is unable to document that he is a free man and not a slave. En route to a surprising resolution, Flavia uncovers family secrets, scandals, and lies that trigger ironic reflections on her own family and eventually a cameo appearance by Falco. Capital crimes lie at the roots of the mystery, but its sweet spots are the complexities of Roman society and the tragic crosscurrents of family dynamics. Dark mystery encased in a rich portrait of ancient Rome.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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This superb first-century domestic suspense set in ancient Rome stars Flavia Albia, a young woman who has inherited her father's investigative business. When her aunt asks her to track down some men who owe her money, Flavia expects it will be an easy case. But numerous twists and turns make this one a real challenge for Flavia and for readers, who Davis provides with a character list and family tree to help keep straight the staggering cast. But not everyone is who they say they are, or who they think they are. (The book even concludes with a revised family tree.) The hunt for her aunt's debtors leads to a new quest to establish that the debtor's ancestor, a slave, was properly freed. The debtor's family's business interests turn on this fact and as Flavia begins to dig into their past, she discovers information about a long-ago murder, which prompts another murder in the present. Despite confounding Roman laws and countless lies and much misdirection, Flavia perseveres and confronts her aunt's debtors in a riotous, culminating trial.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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