In this sensational new novel in her "top-drawer series", Lindsey Davis vividly brings to life London during Roman times circa A.D. 75. Now her streetwise detective, Marcus Didius Falco, needs both his sharp wit and sharpened sword in a case of gangsters, gladiators, and brutal death in the city along the Thamesis... There's no place like home. Unfortunately Marcus Didius Falco is a thousand miles north, stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium. And just when he's about to pack up his family, assorted relatives, and friend Petronius to return to Rome, a dead body turns up, head down, in a well behind a local drinking establishment. The victim is Verovolcus, a nobleman known to Falco and, more important, a close friend of the king. Suddenly Falco has a murder case to solve before he can get out of town. Deciding to go undercover to investigate, Falco asks his patrician wife, Helena, to dress up like a neighborhood tart. Incognito, this Roman Nick and Nora undertake that...

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