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Nine for the Devil
Mary Reed
Poisoned Pen Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 15, 2012
313 pages
ISBN: 1590589947
EAN: 9781590589946
Kindle: B007H9JVB6
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Historical | Fiction
"The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead of disease. Or
so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire,
believes. Everyone except Emperor Justinian, who orders
John, his Lord Chamberlain, to ¬find her murderer or suffer
the consequences.
There is no sign of foul play, but many of the aristocrats
at the imperial court had good reason to want Theodora dead.
Suspects include General Artabanes, forced to occupy a house
with an unloved wife; Justinian’s cousin Germanus, who has
seen his career blocked; and Antonina and her husband
General Belisarius, enraged by Theodora’s attempt to marry
their daughter to her grandson by compelling the young
couple to live together. Could the exiled and much hated
former tax collector John the Cappadocian have played a
role? Might Gaius, palace physician, have tampered with
Theodora’s medication? Pope Vigilius, detained in the
capital due to a religious controversy, is not above
suspicion. Even John’s friends, the lawyer Anatolius and
Felix, captain of the place guards, are acting strangely.
As if seeking a murderer who seems to be a figment of the
emperor’s grief-deranged imagination isn’t difficult enough,
John must also grapple with domestic upheavals. His
daughter, living on an estate outside the city, is about to
give birth, and his aging servant Peter is dying. Will John
be able to serve justice, his loved ones, and the emperor? "
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