β Scribed by Lindsey Davis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Like visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skullduggery crowd the pages.
_Guardian_
Falco wisecracks his way through the empires sleazy underside . . . Daviss crimes are wickedly convoluted real fun.
_Time_
From the Hardcover edition.
It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. Marcus Didius Falco and Helena have returned from Greece only to find that Helenas brother Justinuss marital problems have exploded. Justinuss first love, Veleda, a tribal leader and prophetess from Germania, has been brought to Rome and put under house arrest pending a ritual sacrifice at her capturers Triumph.
Justinus is love-struck once more and his wife, the temperamental Claudia, is enraged. Then Veleda escapes leaving behind a corpse. Justinus disappears too and it is up to Falco and the Chief Spy Anacrites to try to find the missing couple all against the backdrop of the orgiastic holiday period when literally anything goes . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
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