The Ghosts of Glevum
By (Author) Rosemary Rowe
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
15th March 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
823.914
288
Width 140mm, Height 25mm, Spine 222mm
421g
Glevum, AD 187: Despite the opulence of the evening s banquet, Libertus is keen to return to his wife and a warm bed. But this feast has a finale to put any diner off his dessert the guest of honour is found dead in the vomitorium.
To Libertus s horror, his patron Marcus Septimus is arrested on suspicion of murder. Then when Libertus is accused of being Marcus s accomplice, he is forced to go on the run. Hiding in a dark corner of the city, he quickly realises he s an unwelcome visitor to those who haunt the shadows. Soon Libertus is in danger, and this time there s no one to help...Rosemary Rowe is the pseudonym of an author who has successfully published novels in another genre. Born in Cornwall, she lived for twenty years in New Zealand. A highly qualified academic, she has written more than a dozen best-selling text-books as Rosemary Aitken.