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Spqr XI Under Vesuvius (SPQR) | 
 enlarge | Author: Roberts. John Maddox
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 124980
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0312370881
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312370886
ASIN: 0312370881
Publication Date: December 13, 2007
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Book Eleven in the SPQR Series December 20, 2007
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is book number eleven in the SPQR series, John Maddox Roberts answer to the Roman series of books by Lindsey Davis, Steven Saylor etc. I have read most of them as I am always a sucker for anything Roman, fact or fiction. As an aside I don't know why but for some reason Amazon seems to be one of the few places where you can actually purchase books by this author. Borders and Waterstones do not seem to stock them for some unknown reason. Personally I find them quite an enjoyable read and I am sure many other readers feel the same.
In this book Decius Caecilius Metellus has moved onward and upward with his life. Still a happy go lucky kind of guy but now with added responsibility. He is Praetor Peregrinus, a lofty title, and one that means he has to judge a few cases to earn a crust. But in the main these cases are outside the City boundaries and involve foreigners.
One of his port of calls is Campania and Decius and his wife Julia are more than willing to do the sight seeing tour of such a popular place. However the holiday feeling soon changes in a little town near Vesuvius, a girl, the daughter of one of the local priests is brutally murdered.. It falls on Decius to find the murderer and keep the towns people from falling on a young boy, who they all seem to blame for the death. Decius is not so sure but how is he going to prevent a miscarriage of justice. Perhaps his new found status is not all its cracked up to be . . .
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