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Zusatztext I recommend Jane Finnis's Aurelia Marcella novels... these are enjoyable enough to overcome even the deepest-set prejudices against historical detective fiction' Informationen zum Autor Jane Finnis read history at the Univeristy of London before working as a radio producer for BBC radio. She now lives in East Yorkshire and spends her time researching and writing about the Roman Empire. Klappentext First in an absorbing crime series set in 1st century York! featuring young Roman innkeeper Aurelia Marcella. Vorwort First in an absorbing crime series set in 1st century York, featuring young Roman innkeeper Aurelia Marcella. Zusammenfassung BRITANNIA, 91 AD: A raw, frontier province lying at the northern edge of the Roman Empire. Its fifty years since the legions invaded, but the land still simmers with tension, especially in the north.But in the Oak Tree Inn on the road to Eburacum, both Roman and Briton are welcome. Innkeeper Aurelia Marcella fled the devastation of Pompeii to build a new life here, and though her roots are Roman, her heart belongs to Britannia. Then a messenger is brutally decapitated outside her Inn, a crude message scrawled on his body: ALL ROMANS WILL BE KILLED. GET OUT OR DIE. An act of rebellion, or something more sinister, something more personal? Amid shadows and deception, Aurelia will have to face the possibility that someone she knows and trusts her and her family dead...
