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A review by stacey42
Spqr V: Saturnalia by John Maddox Roberts
3.0
Book 5 in the series, featuring Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger a well born Roman man with a reputation as an investigator, at the time of late Roman Republic.
This isn't one of my favorites in the series. It's not as much fun & feels darker to me.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Decius' family has recalled him from his most recent exile (he gets exiled at the end of nearly every book as a result of his snooping). They want him to investigate the sudden death of Metellus Celer, who is married to Clodia, sister of Decius' old enemy Clodius. The family wants him to prove Clodia did it, but as he tells them, he doesn't work that way. He'll find out WHO did it, no matter who that turns out to be.
Along the way he becomes involved in a banned witch cult that appears to have ties to poisonings.
Lots of twists & turns & certainly held my interest.
This isn't one of my favorites in the series. It's not as much fun & feels darker to me.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Decius' family has recalled him from his most recent exile (he gets exiled at the end of nearly every book as a result of his snooping). They want him to investigate the sudden death of Metellus Celer, who is married to Clodia, sister of Decius' old enemy Clodius. The family wants him to prove Clodia did it, but as he tells them, he doesn't work that way. He'll find out WHO did it, no matter who that turns out to be.
Along the way he becomes involved in a banned witch cult that appears to have ties to poisonings.
Lots of twists & turns & certainly held my interest.