Blood of a Gladiator by Ashley Gardner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A.D. 62 Rome. Gladiator Leonidas the Spartan is given his freedom by an unknown benefactor. But he must keep himself and his slave Cassia by obtaining employment. His first position is as a bodyguard for Decimus Laelius Priscus as he travels to Ostia Antica to retrieve a valuable cargo. Meanwhile Leonidas is convinced someone is trying to kill him, and frame him for a murder he did not commit.
An entertaining and well-written historical mystery with its likeable main characters.

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