title: Pandora's Boy
text: # Pandora's Boy
  
  Pandora's Boy is a historical novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the sixth in her Flavia Albia series. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK on 5 April 2018, (ISBN 9781473658745) and in the United States in 2018 by St. Martin's Press.
  
  The tale involves the death of a young girl and during her investigation Albia "has to contend with the occult, organised crime, an unusual fertility symbol, and celebrity dining"; the Pandora of the title is a local witch.
  
  The story begins in October AD 89 and is set in Rome, on the Quirinal $Hill.^{:1}$
  
  The cover of the UK hardback 1st edition shows a cracked blue glass bird credited as "vessel shaped like bird" from the Corning Museum of $Glass^{:dustjacket}$
  
  