Using scholarly, historical insight, and evocative storytelling. On first publication back in 1994, Catilina's Riddle was a finalist for the Hammett Award. Read 185 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Shrewdly depicting deadly political maneuverings, this addictive mystery also displays the author's firm grasp of history and human character. 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. Claiming that Catilina plans an uprising if he loses the race, Cicero asks Gordianus to keep a watchful eye on the radical. Read 192 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 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. Catilina's Riddle (Roma Sub Rosa, 3) by Steven Saylor Catilina's Riddle book. 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. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The third in Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa novels featuring Gordianus the Finder.
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