"Sam Spade in a ratty toga", proclaims the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" of Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, the hero of Lindsey Davis's bestselling series who has strode through the Eternal City like a colossus of a P.I. In this riveting new adventure, however, Falco may make a fatal misstep as he enters the halls of Roman law and finds that juris prudentia is anything but prudent. It's rife with risk and deadly betrayals... Justice may be blind. Yet in the case of a rich Roman senator named Rubirius Metellus, who was convicted of corruption and then committed suicide, Marcus Didius Falco should have smelled a rat... and looked the other way. The affair begins when a famous prosecutor asks Falco to look into Metellus's death. Newly returned from far-flung Londinium, Falco needs the business and doesn't question why he's been given this case. Perhaps after his lengthy hiatus in the provinces, he's forgotten how to swim with the sharks... In the predatory world of Roman law,...

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