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Oracle of the Dead

Pages
240
Published
2009
Language
English

Synopsis

Decius Caecilius Metellus is enjoying a quiet post in southern Italy while Rome teeters on the edge of civil war. His peaceful retreat ends when a visit to a local oracle leads him into the middle of a bloody feud between rival priesthoods. With the region on the brink of an ethnic uprising, Decius must solve a mass murder to keep the peace and save his own life.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence