Roman Blood

By Steven Saylor

Subjects: Fiction, historical, Rome, fiction, Italy, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Gordianus the finder (fictitious character), fiction

Description: 80 BC: Gordianus accepts a commission from Cicero to investigate a murder while Rome is under the thumb of a brutal dictator. The client is Sextus Roscius, who was accused of parricide. The novel is derived from Cicero's Murder Trials and features Marcus Tullius Tiro among others.