![]() ![]() “Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive.” - The Oregonian (Portland) Ironic and satisfying.” - San Francisco Chronicle On first publication back in 1994, Catilina's Riddle was a finalist for the Hammet Award. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. ![]() Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. ![]() The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. "Engrossing.Ironic and satisfying." - San Francisco Chronicle "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." -(ortland) Oregonian ![]()
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