Name: The River God's Vengeance

Author: John Maddox Roberts
Year: 1997
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Mystery, Historical fiction, Fiction, Crime

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9780312323202
0312323204		 He would rise up as savior of the State, but Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger already has a lot on his mind. In the year of his aedileship, Decius is expected to stage elaborate and expensive games out of his own pocket. Along with his duties of pleasing the crowds with the feats of gladiators and wild beasts, are the more practical, and commonly neglected, ones of maintaining the city and its laws. It is these more mundane duties that call him to the scene of a recently built and more recently collapsed tenement building. Determined to punish the greedy parties who used cheap materials and caused the deaths of hundreds, Decius sets out to exact justice. It is easier said than done, especially when bodies and evidence go missing, and his family pressures him to cease the investigation. As he seeks out the politicians, philosophers, and tradesmen of the day, it becomes clear that the collapse of the building was deliberate, and Decius could be going after some of the most powerful men in Rome.

In this eighth installment of the series, Roberts once again provides authentic detail in the everyday Roman customs, as well as a fascinating picture of the growing unsteadiness of this famed Republic.
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"Oracle of the Dead"
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"Under Vesuvius"
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"A Point of Law"
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"The Princess and the Pirates"
First published in 2000
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"The Tribune's Curse"
First published in 1996
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"Nobody Loves a Centurion"
First published in 1995
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"Saturnalia"
First published in 1994
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"The Temple of the Muses"
First published in 1992
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"The Sacrilege"
First published in 1992
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"The Catiline Conspiracy"
First published in 1991
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"The King's Gambit"
First published in 1990
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"The Year of Confusion"
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