John Maddox Roberts: The Year of Confusion (2011)

From the Publisher:
CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR, snow dictator of Biome, kas decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the As if this weren't already an unpopular anove, Caesar has brought in astroners and astrologers from abeund, incfud ing Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, and Persians. Decius is appointed to over see this project, which he knows sunkles the Roman public: "To be tald by a pack of Chaldeans and Egyptiane how to conduct their duties toward the gods was intolerable."

Not long after the new calendar project begins, two of the foreigners are murdered. Decins begins his inves tigations, and, as the body co Incase finds that an Indian Fortune teller popular with patrician Raman ladice is involved. Decins must gure out the fortune-teller's scam and expose the murderer while doing his hest to stay alive.

This latest book in the highly praised series is a suspenseful, enter taining tour through ancient Rome, sure to please historical mystery fasa.

John Maddox Roberts: The Year of Confusion. SPQR XIII. A Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9780312595074 (January, 2011), 277 p., $14.99.

John Maddox Roberts: The Year of Confusion (2010)

From the Publisher:
CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR, snow dictator of Biome, kas decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the As if this weren't already an unpopular anove, Caesar has brought in astroners and astrologers from abeund, incfud ing Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, and Persians. Decius is appointed to over see this project, which he knows sunkles the Roman public: "To be tald by a pack of Chaldeans and Egyptiane how to conduct their duties toward the gods was intolerable."

Not long after the new calendar project begins, two of the foreigners are murdered. Decins begins his inves tigations, and, as the body co Incase finds that an Indian Fortune teller popular with patrician Raman ladice is involved. Decins must gure out the fortune-teller's scam and expose the murderer while doing his hest to stay alive.

This latest book in the highly praised series is a suspenseful, enter taining tour through ancient Rome, sure to please historical mystery fasa.

John Maddox Roberts: The Year of Confusion. SPQR XIII. A Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9780312595074 (February, 2010), 277 p., $24.99.