First published in June 2008
by Poisoned Pen Press
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ISBN: 978-1-59058-399-9
Price: £15.95
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The third Aurelia Marcella mystery takes place in 98 AD, a time of hope for the
Roman Empire and its new Emperor, Trajan. In the northern
province of Britannia, Aurelia Marcella shares the general optimism. Her mansio
on the road to York is prospering, her sister Albia is happily married and settled in the wold
country to the east, and her brother Lucius has an easy assignment, salvaging a
shipwrecked government cargo with promise of a large reward..
But violence breaks out in the wolds, caused by an elusive band of sea-raiders
from Gaul harassing
farmsteads, and vicious feuding over land between Roman settlers and powerful native
farmers.
Albia's family are caught up in this and are in serious danger, and Lucius' easy assignment turns into a nightmare. He has disturbing family news to impart too, about past events which throw dark
shadows into the present.
Murder erupts when the landowners' hostility escalates into open violence. Brother and sisters, together with Aurelia's lover Quintus, must discover who is
behind the bloodshed, and reveal the buried secrets of the past before the peace of the present is irrevocably broken.
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