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Germanicus

by David Wishart

Germanicus
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10th November 2011

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Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444732740

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Marcus Corvinus feels his heart sink when he is summoned by Empress Livia. Age has not sweetened her and she’s about as trustworthy as a snake with a migraine. But Livia has a way of asking a favour that is impossible to refuse – which is how Marcus finds himself investigating the death of her grandson, Germanicus. And uncovering a multi-stranded web of betrayal and deceit that threatens the imperial succession and even Emperor Tiberius himself.

Reviews

<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>
Classic scholar Wishart . . . provides ample historical color to smooth the slow journey to a solution.
<i>Independent on Sunday</i>
Praise for David Wishart: 'Witty, engrossing and ribald . . . it misses nothing in its evocation of a bygone time and place'
<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>
There's lots of action and a nice plot, full of suspense, to keep you going
<i>The Times</i>
Like Chandler's Marlowe, Corvinus wisecracks his way through a weary world of murder and intrigue until he hunts down the truth. A taut thriller in which ancient Rome springs to life