Taking place in 12 BC, this is the third Claudia Sefarius book. Marilyn Todd's writing is clear and the story moves right along, although her style occasionally irks.Claudia heads to Etruria to check her vineyards, but must make a stop in Cumbria after her carriage is forced off the road. During the night, she hears a noise at her door, and finds a man with a knife in his belly falling on her. The owner of the estate calls in the local law (the military), and she is accused of murder.Not only that, but the insufferable Marcus Cornelius Orbilio has followed her...