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Pandora's Boy
- Flavia Albia, Book 6 (Falco: The New Generation)
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Series: Flavia Albia Mystery Series, Book 6
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Lindsay Davis back to her best
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Publisher's Summary
From the creator of Falco comes Falco: The New Generation, featuring her unforgettable heroine, Flavia Albia, in her sixth novel.
Flavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. On the Quirinal Hill, Clodia Volumnia, a very young girl with stars in her eyes, has died, amid suggestions that she was poisoned by a love potion. It will have been supplied by a local witch, who goes by the name of Pandora, though Albia learns that Pandora carries on a trade in herbal beauty products while hiding much more dangerous connections. Pandora's beloved grandson, a trainee hack lawyer, is one of the dead girl's empty-headed friends; can this be relevant?
As she homes in on the truth, Albia has to contend with the occult, organised crime, an unusual fertility symbol, and celebrity dining. She discovers the young girl was a handful; her father mediates in disputes, yet has divorced his grief-stricken wife and is now suing his own mother-in-law; Clodia's so-called friends were none too friendly. The supposedly sweet air of the Quirinal hides the smells of loose morality, casual betrayal and even gangland conflict. When a friend of her own is murdered, Albia determines to expose as much of this local sickness as she can - beginning with the truth about the death of little Clodia.
Critic Reviews
"Davis's prose is a lively joy, and Flavia's Rome is sinister and gloriously real." (The Times on Sunday)
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- Anonymous User
- 08-11-2020
Better but still long winded.
so many chapters for so little story. Better than the last one but still a very long listen.
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- V
- 20-04-2018
Great performance of a brilliant series
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- Son of Thor's whimper
- 17-09-2019
Fading interest för Albia
Listening to Lindsey Davis or for that matter Donna Leone is to me a question of combining a good who done it read with getting the flavor and the living experience of ancient Rome (or today's Venice). By creating her other hero Albia, Lindsay is now somehow reusing the story of Falco and getting a female informer where she can comment on the world of men from a female perspective. In this book, though, she somehow has performed below par, measured against her considerable talents. The who done it story was too thin and becoming apparent much to early (something usually not happening to me). When the description of Rome somehow becomes more like a readout of historical maps without a sense of place and presence half the value of the read gets lost. Furthermore, when the cultural description of ancient Rome deviates from historical facts and increasingly becomes a commentary of modern mores, especially between genders, I get irritated. I am sure Flavia Albia would be astonished by a Roman world where she more or less could work in her line of trade, in the manner she is doing. So it becomes a boring, uninspiring and unrealistic read. I will now take a pause from Flavia Albia, maybe Rome is now fading away.
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- JP
- 04-04-2019
Albia has finally arrived...
...thank goodness. Pretty good story, acceptable characters and quick pace. Our heroine resembles the Albia of the Falco series, finally. Thank you.
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- L Weale
- 09-06-2018
Well read and touching mystery
I have taken to Flavia Albia, a feisty, sensible and often worried heroine and Lindsey Davis's investigative stories that tell us a lot about ancient Rome as well as giving us something to puzzle over. As I get older I know I prefer mystery stories to the competitive horror of how cruel one person can be to another. There are two deaths in this story, one bewildering and one utterly grim and a great deal about the Roman middle-class. I have listened twice, enjoying it even more the second time round. The Flavia Albia Audible books have a couple of different readers. I don't have a favourite and think they all have their strengths. Jane Collingwood does a fine job with Pandora's Boy.
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- Miss A.
- 26-04-2019
Enjoyable although obvious.
The problem is it doesn't compare to the Falco series, which had so much humour.
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- Yasmine Audientis
- 02-08-2018
Falco Light
Lindsey Davis is an absolute gem of an author, but I found it difficult to engage with this new Falco series - Flavia Albia is simply not my cup of tea, despite the nifty plot and excellent background detail of Pandora’s Boy, and the wide cast of character. A pity that the burgeoning romance in the Falco series, between Flavia Albia and Helena’s brother, Aulus Aelianus could not have a happy ending. As for the narration, least said, soonest mended.
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- S A Hyden
- 24-05-2018
A fine addition to the Albia series
Good story well read and engaging. Albia is turning into Falcos worthy replacement as an informer
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- Mary Carnegie
- 14-04-2018
Albia is back - Roman baddies beware!
The family tragedy of a teenage daughter found dead in bed, punch ups between grannies, accusations of witchcraft (Emperor Domitian persecutes mathematicians and philosophers, so any suggestion of magic..!) is only the end of a thread of a tangle of scandal and crime in the affluent quarters of Rome, in which Albia is rather reluctantly engaged, at the request of her husband’s snooty and superficial ex-wife. The spoiled adolescents of rich families behave just as underemployed, indulged youngsters have done, ever since some parts of human society was able to support idleness and an unearned sense of entitlement. We also have middle-aged hippy parents, “Stoics”, like stinky old Cato, old ‘68ers, perhaps, without the apostrophe for 1968, enjoying nettle beer and mild dissident activity, on a decent unearned income from hardworking ancestors, but under Domitian’s paranoid and murderous rule, dangerous acquaintances - think McCarthyism! There’s organised crime, working towards superficial respectability and “establishment” status, generation by generation ... nothing new under the sun! I love the Falco family. They get around, cross class and ethnic barriers and translate 1st century life with humour, which must have been present then, but has been either censored out, or unrecorded, or lost over time in surviving written texts. There is a lot of historical background on the social life of the Roman Empire of the 1st century presented in this series in easily digestible form, much unknown or ignored until recently. Albia is resilient, using her hideous childhood as a resource, rather than an excuse for self-pity, funny, and, not being Roman by birth, capable of seeing beyond the accepted norms, but adapting when required. She has outgrown her adolescent door slamming and flouncing, once enhanced by her insecurities of adoption into an alien culture, early deprivation and abuse, lack of identity. I look forward to hearing more of her, and her younger siblings, especially the wee brother who has Asperger’s, son of the outrageous and engaging snake-dancer Thalia, and, allegedly, Falco’s roguish father..
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- Andrew
- 10-04-2018
Starting to go off the boil
Not sure if this is a dip in the usual high standard, but Flavia is starting to come across all jolly hockey sticks and lacking the edge that Falco had, the constant references in this book of Falco made me pine for the old days, maybe a joint investigation to come, though voice wise i'm unsure how that would work.
Hopefully a blip and the best is to come
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-04-2018
another good story from Rome
The Flavia Albia tales of detection are good choices for audio books. The narration was excellent, with enough variation without over dramatising. The lightness of approach fits well with Lindsay Davis's writing style. The story is less dramatic than some, with a good Poirot type denouement which revealed what readers will probably have deduced some time earlier. The interest lies in the society and culture of Rome in the time of Domitian. We are introduced to a smarter area of the city, the Quirinal.
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