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Roma, 46 d.C. Appena tornato nell'Urbe dopo un viaggio nelle Gallie, Publio Aurelio Stazio si trova coinvolto nei festeggiamenti dei Saturnalia, una sorta di rito carnevalesco dell'antichità durante il quale i ruoli sociali si invertono: gli schiavi si trasformano in padroni e i padroni in schiavi. Un'occasione dissacrante, liberatoria, soprattutto giorni di sfrenata allegria per tutti. O quasi tutti.

This eagerly awaited fifth book in John Maddox Roberts's Edgar-nominated historical mystery series once again takes the reader back to the Rome of Julius Caesar and the Roman Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger. Decius has won himself a reputation as both an investigator and, most unfortunately, a bit of a playboy. Having been banished by his family for sometimes embarrassing activities to a rather leisurely lifestyle on Rhodes, he is puzzled to be suddenly and unexpectedly summoned home to assist in an investigation.