When human hands are discovered in Rome's aqueducts, Marcus Didios Falco and his partner Petronius Longus suspect a serial killer is at large, and together, the two men try to find him before he can strike again.
Informer Marcus Didius Falco's already complicated life becomes even more so when six-year-old Gaia Laelia, a candidate to become a Vestal Virgin, comes to him complaining that someone in her influential family is trying to kill her.
When human hands are discovered in Rome's aqueducts, Marcus Didios Falco and his partner Petronius Longus suspect a serial killer is at large, and together, the two men try to find him before he can strike again.
Roman private detective Marcus Didius Falco becomes involved in a slippery plot when he sets out to investigate an assassination attempt on the life of Chief Spy Anacrites, and uncovers scandal in the olive oil trade.
Informer Marcus Didius Falco's already complicated life becomes even more so when six-year-old Gaia Laelia, a candidate to become a Vestal Virgin, comes to him complaining that someone in her influential family is trying to kill her.
Private investigator Marcus Didius Falco, working as a tax collector for Emperor Vespasian, gets a break from the boredom of the job when Leonidas, the Empire's official lion executioner, is stabbed to death in his cage.
