The Year of the Snake
Trow, M. J. / Coleman, Maryanne
Sometimes, a snake is just a snake. And sometimes…First-century Rome.Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva's recently freed slave, suspects otherwise.As he embarks upon the funeral ceremonies, Calidus becomes more and more convinced that his master was murdered and begins an investigation, seeking out everyone who had att...