Juvenalia

<p>Rome 58 AD.��� </p><p></p><p>Aemilius Valerius is on the up and up. His reputation has been rehabilitated he has established a fledgling career and he has new friends in very powerful places. When one of those new friends the poet Lucan is attacked Valerius is given an offer he can't refuse: find the culprits before they strike again. But when every man in Lucan's circle of poets and playwrights and artists is potentially a suspect each one of them competing for the emperor's favour how is Valerius supposed to tell the difference between petty jealousy and murderous rage?��� </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the Vigile Junius Atreus has his own violent crime to investigate and the more he and Valerius dig around the murkier and more dangerous things become. </p><p></p><p>Can Valerius and Atreus solve the crimes and save their reputations-and their lives-before the Juvenalia Nero's birthday extravaganza of poetry plays musical performances and dance? On the plus side if they get murdered at least they won't have to sit through that.��� </p>