The Grove of the Caesars by Lindsey Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

AD 89 Flavia Albia and husband Tiberius have workman in a grotto in the Grove who unearth some possibly ancient scrolls. Are they real or fakes, and if fakes who and why is involved. Flavis is interested in finding out the answer and so investigates among the many scroll sellers.
Meanwhile at a party held by Cluventius in the Grove of Caesars, his wife disappeared, and later her naked body is found. It is for Ursus, of the Seventh Cohort of Vigiles to investigate.
Flavia Albia discovers that many woman have disapppeared from the Grove, over the decades, and that bodies of murdered women have been found there but their deaths not investigated. Obviously their in a serial killer in the area. Eventually Flavia is engaged as a professional advisor to the Cluventius family to find the killer of his wife.
An enjoyable and interesting well-written historical mystery, with its likeable main character and secondary ones.
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