“Steven Saylor’s engrossing series of popular novels centered around Gordianus the Finder-a kind of Roman Sherlock Holmes.” “Saylor puts such great detail and tumultuous life into his scenes that the sensation of rubbing elbows with the ancients is quite uncanny.” - New York Times Book Review Dreary weather and an excellent book - life is good. I have enjoyed this book (an author presented at a Mystery Book talk) greatly and hope to read more from this author. "I moved from Medieval England to pre-Caesarian Rome and there is a correlation. Playing for stakes much higher than he bargained for, Gordianus finds that not only is he himself endangered, but so are all those around him. As he draws nearer to the truth, the conspiracy looms ever larger until Gordianus begins to perceive the hand of the dictator Sulla himself. Hired by Cicero to investigate the charges, Gordianus sets out to discover the truth in a case-and a society-rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy. His client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the most unforgivable act in Ancient Rome: the murder of his father. Ambitious and brilliant, the twenty-six-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. In Rome, 80 BC, on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero.
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