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Set in Ancient Rome. When Marcus Corvinus is summoned by the Empress Livia he fears the worst: age has not sweetened her. But Livia has a favour to ask, Marcus must investigate the death of her grandson, Germanicus. This favour is to embroil Marcus in a multi-stranded web of betrayal and deceit.
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David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics at Edinburgh University, and after a spell of teaching Latin and Greek in secondary school retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, working for various companies in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990, and lives in Carnoustie, Angus. His first book, ‘I, Virgil’, was published in 1995; ‘Ovid’ – the first of the Marcus Corvinus series – followed a year later. He is married to Rona and has two children and (currently) four grandchildren.
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"Innate humor and pace carry the reader through to the tragic-comic climax" --Irish Times
"Extremely enjoyable, with an ingenious solution to the ancient mystery" --The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
"Extremely enjoyable, with an ingenious solution to the ancient mystery" --The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0340682825
- ISBN 13 9780340682821
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages340
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