Death in the ashes

By Bell, Albert A. Jr

Subjects: Rome, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Fiction

Description: In A.D. 84 Pliny the Younger returns to the Bay of Naples--where the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius five years earlier caused the death of his adoptive father and mentor--to help a family friend charged with murder. Never before has so much time elapsed before Pliny's arrival on a murder scene, and never before has he carried so much emotional baggage.