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The Venus Throw

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781849016100

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 20th October 2011

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Historical Fiction

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On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome – one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has a reputation for solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, asks for something Gordianus cannot give – help in staying alive. And before the night is out, Dio is brutally assassinated.

Now Gordianus must begin the most dangerous case of his career. Hired to investigate Dio’s murder by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of intrigue into the highest circles of political power and the city’s secret arenas of debauchery. There Gordianus will learn that nothing is as it seems, not the damning evidence he uncovers, nor the suspect he sends to trial, not even the real truth behind Dio’s death which also lies shrouded in secrets – though not of the state, but of the heart.

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Engrossing...simmering with eroticism.
Publisher's Weekly
A deadly game of betrayls, seduction and murder.
The Poisoned Pen
Finely etched historical background...the finest flower yet of Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series.
Kirkus Review