ISBN: 979-1298623804
Author: Giulio C. Valcossi
Publisher: Libanius Publishing
Print Length: 324 pages
Format: Paperback
Rome, 13 BC. During a race at the Circus Maximus, Apollo—Rome’s most celebrated charioteer—collapses and dies, the victim of a deliberate and expertly concealed poison. Maecenas, better known as a statesman and patron of poets than as an investigator, is reluctantly drawn into the search for the truth. To protect both his friend Bathyllus and Marcus Herennius Picens—who bears a long-standing grudge against him—from a charge of murder, he must venture into worlds he has never known: the betting rings of the Circus, the rival factions of the charioteers, and the Roman underworld, where silence is bought and lives are cheap. His inquiry will lead him to confront Augustus himself and unravel a web of old resentments and unspoken family tensions—for in Rome, innocence is never a defence, and no crime stands alone.
Also available in Italian: Mecenate e gli inganni di Ermes. La prima indagine di Gaio Mecenate.
Giulio C. Valcossi, autore 