Synopses & Reviews
In April of AD 83 a caravan of travelers stop at an inn for the night. The next morning one of them is dead, butchered in horrific fashion. No Roman magistrates are on the scene, so Pliny the Younger, Rome's answer to Sherlock Holmes, takes charge until the provincial governor can be summoned. But all of Pliny's sleuthing may be in vain if it turns out that the killer had another victim in mind -- Pliny himself.