Publisher's Synopsis
The Dagger of Nemesis is the 9th in the series of highly acclaimed and best selling Judge Marcus Flavius Severus mysteries in Ancient Rome. This story takes place in the year 173 CE during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. It is 2 years after the events in A Shipwreck Conspiracy.
Judge Severus is retired from the Court of the Urban Prefect and living with his family in the countryside, where he can study philosophy and history and astronomy and contemplate.
But Fate intervenes. The Prefect of the City of Rome seeks his help to solve a series of murders that no one has been able to solve in the month since they were committed. There were three murders in three days. The first victim was a famous charioteer of the Red faction. The second was a famous courtesan. The third was an obscure shoemaker. Each victim had their throat slit with a dagger and the number I, II, or III written on their cheek in their own blood.
