Enemies at Home (Flavia Albia Mystery, Book 2) by Lindsey Davis
By Lindsey Davis
"There are ideas for personal informers accepting a brand new case. by no means tackle consumers who can't pay you. by no means do favours for pals. Don't paintings with kinfolk. If, like me, you're a girl, continue away from males you discover appealing.
"Will I by no means learn?"
In old Rome, the variety of slaves was once some distance more than that of unfastened voters. consequently, usually the folk Romans feared so much have been the "enemies at home," the slaves below their very own roofs. due to this, Roman legislations decreed that if the pinnacle of a family was once murdered at domestic, and the offender wasn't quick chanced on, his slaves—all of them, in charge or not—were presumed liable and have been positioned to dying. with out exception.
When a pair is located useless of their personal bed room and their residence burglarized, a few of their loved ones slaves understand what's approximately to take place to them. They flee to the Temple of Ceres, which by means of culture is revered as a haven for refugees. this can be the place Flavia Albia is available in. The experts, stressed from both sides, want a resolution. Albia, a personal informer similar to her father, Marcus Didius Falco, is requested to unravel the murders.
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.