Venus in Copper

Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780345373908.

"Delectably funny...A novel that gives new meaning to the term classic detective fiction." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In 70 A.D. in ancient Rome, no one is a saint. Or so thinks Marcus Didius Falco, a private investigator first introduced in the award-winning SILVER PIGS, whos trying to prevent a murder before it happens. When every man a woman marries dies, Falco knows theres smoke and fire--and hell stop at nothing to untangle the Gordion knot that proves it.