Dimensions
111 x 177 x 19mm
Reunited at last with his long-lost wife, Libertus returns to Glevum, but his new-found happiness is rudely interrupted by the news that a visiting Roman ambassador has been murdered in the temple of the Imperial cult. Events take a bizarre and chilling turn when the body disappears, and a mood of superstitious terror grips the town when unearthly wails are heard coming from the temple and mysterious bloodstains start to appear from nowhere.
But Libertus is sure there is a human explanation for the murder. Perhaps the answer lies with the old High Priest of Jupiter, who is still nursing political ambition, or Scribonius, the assistant Imperial priest whose pious facade conceals a dark secret from the past.
Nothing is as it seems, and Libertus is to uncover still more unsettling events, and more deaths, before the truth is finally revealed.
