The Year of the Snake: Murder in the Senate by M.J. Trow
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

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