Man Eater: A Murder MysteryOn the eve of the Festivities, Claudia Seferius is actually heading in the opposite direction, but then, even beautiful young Roman widows have to act when their vineyards are threatened. But Claudia is run off the road by hooligans and forced to shelter in the strange home of Sergius Pictor surrounded by the caged animals he is training for the games. And when a man chooses her room in which to die, Claudia finds herself accused of murder.

big-hearted story that whips the reader along

Her department

It's not hyperbole to call this novel a masterwork - if anything that word is simply just too little for it

it was like I had a secret

as the British Navy hunt them down and the fanatical Captain Roberts drives the ship onwards to the ultimate prize - the mysterious treasure ship

the profound dislocations of grief

until the red tape becomes too much of a challenge and their happy life together is under threat

clever murder mystery with a truly engaging heroine Jane Casey

An impossible ambition

and most prized of all - the Golden Scarab

the vast defences built to stop the French before Lisbon

Over three long days