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The Eyes of Aurora: A Fifth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger | Albert A. Bell (Jr.)

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Pliny's servant Aurora, who is also the forbidden love of his life, has played Good Samaritan to a woman who claims to be searching for her missing husband. Thinking he can help the woman, Pliny steps in, assisted, as usual, by his friend Tacitus. But the situation turns into a web of deception and intrigue when they discover evidence of a horrific murder while searching in the countryside for clues to the whereabouts of the missing man. After Aurora is injured, Pliny's involvement becomes personal. He's even desperate enough to ask Regulus, his longtime sworn enemy, for help when the case brings him to the malevolent attention of the emperor Domitian.

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The Eyes of Aurora: A Fifth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger | Albert A. Bell (Jr.)

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Searching for the husband of a woman who has now disappeared herself, Pliny comes across the body of a woman who has been brutally raped, stabbed and decapitated.

My memory of the first two books in this series is a little vague three years later, but I don't remember them or the ones I read recently being quite this sexually and violently graphic. I don't think I'm particularly squeamish, but it is quite a departure for the author.

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The Eyes of Aurora: A Fifth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger | Albert A. Bell (Jr.)

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