<DIV><DIV><DIV>"Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) <I>Oregonian</I></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>"Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The third in Saylor's <I>Roma Sub Rosa</I> novels featuring Gordianus the Finder. Gordianus, disillusioned by the corruption of Rome circa 63 B.C., has fled the city with his family to live on a farm in the Etruscan countryside. But this bucolic life is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians: Roman consul Cicero, Gordianus's longtime patron, and populist senator Catilina, Cicero's political rival and a candidate to replace him in the annual elections for consul. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Although he distrusts both men, Gordianus is forced into the center of the power struggle when his six-year-old daughter Diana finds a headless corpse in their stable. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>On first publication back in 1994, <I>Catilina's Riddle</I> was a finalist for the Hammet Award.</DIV></DIV></DIV>