Wry sleuth Marcus Corvinus is sent on an unwelcome mission by the emperor Claudius himself in the eighteenth book in this compelling historical mystery series set in Ancient Rome.
June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus's help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his summer-house at Lugdunum.
Not especially happy at being despatched to Gaul, and even less enamoured of his enforced travelling companion, the insufferable Domitius Crinas, Corvinus is increasingly frustrated as it becomes clear that the dead man's extended family and friends are hiding something from him. Unused to strange Gallic customs and facing an uphill struggle getting anyone to talk freely to a Roman, Corvinus is convinced that there's more to this murder than meets the eye - but, a stranger in a strange land, how is he going to prove it . . .?
- ISBN10 1780107935
- ISBN13 9781780107936
- Publish Date 1 September 2016 (first published 31 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Severn House
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 240
- Language English