Roman Blood

In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C. Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero a young advocate staking his reputation on a case involving the savage murder of the wealthy sybaritic Sextus Roscius. Charged with the murder is Sextus''s son greed being the apparent motive. The punishment rooted deep in Roman tradition is horrific beyond imagining. The case becomes a political nightmare when Gordianus''s investigation takes him through the city''s raucous pungent streets and deep into rural Umbria. Now one man''s fate may threaten the very leaders of Rome itself.