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The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits

Published in the UK by Robinson, Price £6.99,  ISBN 1-84119-685-1 and in the USA by Carroll & Graf, Price $11.95, ISBN 0-7867-1241-4

The 20 stories in this anthology span eight centuries of Roman history. It is edited by Edgar award winner Mike Ashley, and contributors include Steven Saylor, Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, Rosemary Rowe, John Maddox Roberts, Marilyn Todd, Caroline Lawrence, and a whole lot more. My story, The Cleopatra Game, is set in the 70s AD in Rome itself. A young Egyptian heiress wants to imitate the legendary Queen Cleopatra in everything she does, but at a banquet to celebrate her betrothal to the handsome patrician Marcus, she goes too far, and tragedy results. Rufus the bodyguard must discover whether a childish game of make-believe has got out of hand, or whether someone has used the occasion to commit a cold-blooded murder. Return to my home page