On the Horns of Death

Martis is sixteen and a bull leaper in Bronze Age Crete, around 1450 BC. When Duzi, the newest member of her team, turns up dead in the bull pen, the scene is arranged to look like a goring. Martis sees at once that it was murder.

More deaths follow among the leapers, a tight-knit group who train and perform together. Martis starts asking questions, and the trail leads back to her late sister Arge and the friends Arge kept. Jealousy over love is one motive that gets suspected.

Officials tell her to stop, and so does her own family. She keeps going anyway, and the only help she has is the guidance of Arge's spirit.

The second book in Eleanor Kuhns' Ancient Crete series, this historical mystery grows more dangerous with each death. The question it turns on is whether Martis can name the killer before the team is gone.