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Also by John Maddox Roberts:

SPQR XIII: The Year Of Confusion, January 2011
Paperback
SPQR XII: Oracle Of The Dead, December 2009
Paperback
SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius, December 2008
Paperback
SPQR X: A Point Of Law, May 2007
Paperback
SPQR IX: The Princess and the Pirates, February 2006
Paperback
SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance, February 2005
Paperback
SPQR VI: Nobody Loves A Centurion, October 2003
Paperback
SPQR V: Saturnalia, October 2003
Paperback

SPQR XIII: THE YEAR OF CONFUSION
By: John Maddox Roberts

Minotaur Books
January 2011
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Featuring: Decius
288 pages
ISBN: 0312596111
EAN: 9780312596118
Paperback
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Mystery Historical

Caius Julius Caesar, now Dictator of Rome, has decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the seasons. As if this weren’t already an unpopular move, Caesar has brought in astronomers and astrologers from abroad, including Egyptians, Greeks, Indians and Persians. Decius is appointed to oversee this project, which he knows rankles the Roman public: “To be told by a pack of Chaldeans and Egyptians how to conduct their duties towards the gods was intolerable.”

Not long after the new calendar project begins, two of the foreigners are murdered. Decius begins his investigations and, as the body count increases, it seems that an Indian fortuneteller popular with patrician Roman ladies is also involved.