[Marcus Corvinus 02] • Germanicus

'I swear,' Livia said slowly, 'by all the gods above and below, by my hope of escaping torment in the next world for the murders I have committed in this and by my hope for my own eventual deification, that I was neither directly nor indirectly responsible for the death of my grandson Germanicus Caesar. There. Close your mouth, now, you look ridiculous. Does that satisfy you, or would you like to dictate the words yourself?'

When the young, popular and charismatic Germanicus dies in Antioch under very suspicious circumstances, everyone in Rome – including Marcus Corvinus – assumes that the Emperor Tiberius and his mother the dowager empress Livia are responsible. Only when Livia herself summons Corvinus to the palace, swears she wasn’t involved, and asks him to find out who was, for Corvinus all the bets are off.

If not Livia and Tiberius, then whodunnit? And why?

The second book in the Marcus Corvinus series.