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The
Grove of the Caesars by Lindsey Davis (Hodder & Stoughton) Out Now.
Julius
Caesar left his gardens to the citizens of Rome, a peaceful sanctuary across
the Tiber. Now the gardens and their sacred grove are dangerous haunts,
especially for women alone. 'Don't go to
the Grove,' people mutter, but when her husband has to leave Rome, it falls to Albia to supervise
his building project in an old grotto. Why has someone buried tattered scrolls
by obscure philosophers - and does it involve a worse crime than terrible
writing?
Soon
that puzzle is overtaken. A woman disappears from her husband's birthday party;
she meets a dire fate, then Albia learns that on the same night, two louche
slaves given to her family by the brooding Emperor Domitian also vanished in
the gardens. Apparently, it is well known that a killer lurks there. The vigiles have failed to investigate
properly for decades and this won't improve when the sinister agent Karus
arrives. Albia must co-operate, in order to give the many victims justice and
find answers for grieving relatives. But can she herself remain safe? And,
after others have failed, can she at last identify the predator who has made
the Grove his killing ground?
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