A Vote for Murder

David Wishart. Hodder & Stoughton, $24.95 (356pp) ISBN 978-0-340-77129-7

In David Wishart's (I, Virgil ) latest humorous Marcus Corvinus Roman mystery, A Vote for Murder, Corvinus's uneventful visit to his stepdaughter in the rustic Alban Hills takes a deadly turn with the murder of one of two candidates running for censor. The rival politician, though, may not be the only person with a motive to kill.

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