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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 V: Saturnalia, October 2003
Paperback
SPQR VI: Nobody Loves A Centurion, October 2003
Paperback

SPQR XII: ORACLE OF THE DEAD
By: John Maddox Roberts

SPQR Roman Mysteries #12
Minotaur Books
December 2009
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Featuring: Decius Caecilius Metellus
240 pages
ISBN: 0312538952
EAN: 9780312538958
Paperback
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Mystery Historical

Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year’s magistrate for cases involving foreigners, thinks he is merely visiting one of the local attractions of southern Italy when he takes a party to visit the Oracle of the Dead, a pre-Roman cult site located at the end of a tunnel dug beneath a temple of Apollo. But there is a bitter rivalry between the priests of Apollo and those of Hecate, who guard the oracle, and when the priests are all killed, the countryside looks to explode in violence as Greeks, Romans, and native Italians of several conquered nations bring out old enmities.This riveting historical series began with the Edgar Award–nominated SPQR I: The King’s Gambit and has gone on to international success in thirteen languages.