Book description
February, AD 80. An imperial messenger summons Jonathan's father to
Rome, where the fever which started in Ostia is now threatening to
become a plague. Jonathan and his three friends go, too, and need to use
all their skills to solve a dangerous mystery for the Emperor Titus.
Caroline Lawrence is American. She won a scholarship to Cambridge to
read Classical Archaeology, then did a degree in Hebrew and Jewish
Studies at University College, London. She lives with her husband, a
graphic designer, by the river in London and is active as a speaker in
schools and at book festivals. She is the winner of the 2009 Classics
Association Prize for 'a significant contribution to the public
understanding of Classics'. In addition to the 17 novels in the ROMAN
MYSTERIES sequence, Caroline Lawrence has written 5 spin-off titles, all
of which have contributed to total UK sales in excess of 1 million
copies.
