A review by vesper1931
The Year of the Snake: Murder in the Senate by Maryanne Coleman, M.J. Trow

mysterious
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

A.D. 50's Rome.  Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva becomes ill at a dinner party held at the Villa Gellius, and a few days later he is dead. His steward and now freedman, Calidus, believes he was poisoned at that dinner and decides to seek out the murderer.
An entertaining historical mystery. A good start to this series.