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  • Still Waters
    Marilyn Todd
    In ancient Sparta, secrets kill - and the truth is more dangerous than any blade.High Priestess Iliona is still recovering from a near-fatal stabbing on the temple steps when Lysander, the ruthless head of Sparta’s feared secret police, arrives with an offer she cannot refuse. A trusted Krypteia agent has been murdered on the eve of exposing a shadowy conspiracy. A wrestling ch...
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    18,25 €

  • The Wickedest Town in the West and Other Stories
    Marilyn Todd
    From an award-winning storyteller comes a dazzling collection of ten mystery tales that sweep from the lawless mining camps of the Old West to the champagne-soaked salons of Jazz Age London, and beyond.Meet Elizabeth Sheridan, a proper English rose who crosses an ocean to find her missing fiancé in Arizona’s most notorious boomtown - a place of thirty-seven saloons, thirteen bo...
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    18,52 €

  • Burning Desire and Other Stories
    Marilyn Todd
    A Victorian murderess awaits the dawn of her execution-but is she really who the world believes she is? A picture-perfect Devon cottage burns to the ground while its glamorous owner watches, cigarette holder in hand. A drifter’s fate turns on a single night crossing. From the shadowed alleys of Dickensian London to the sun-bleached streets of Casablanca, from a Wild West mining...
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    18,71 €

  • Blind Eye
    Marilyn Todd
    Blackmailed into spying for Sparta’s hated secret police, High Priestess Iliona’s investigations keep turning up the same stories of a one-eyed giant that lives in the hills above Sicily: the legendary Cyclops. Soon, Iliona comes to realize that the threat to her country doesn’t come from the so-called Cyclops, or even their arch-enemy, Athens; it comes from deep within Sparta ...
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    18,28 €

  • Blood Moon
    Marilyn Todd
    When three bodies are found in bizarre circumstances, the timing is terrible for the rulers of Sparta as they’re hosting an important trade delegation. Convinced it is the work of Athenian agents, they call in Lysander, head of Sparta’s hated Secret Police, to settle the matter quickly and cleanly. Lysander in turn enlists High Priestess Iliona - using bribery and blackmail. Il...
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    18,28 €

  • Stone Cold
    Marilyn Todd
    The latest adventure for the Roman sleuth and glamorous heroine of I, Claudia!Claudia was just ten years old when her father marched off to war and never came home. Now, it’s time to uncover the truth about his disappearance. The search takes her to the dense, dark forests of Gaul, where Druid Law rules and human sacrifice is still practiced. Staying at the villa of the cold, e...
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    19,12 €

  • Sour Grapes
    Marilyn Todd
    Visiting her stepmother at the family estate in Tuscany, Claudia is concerned at the gaggle of hangers-on surrounding the old lady. There’s the sorceress Candace and the handsome horse trader Darius, both of whom seem to hold Larentia equally in their thrall. And what of the series of recent local murders, and the mishaps - including soured wine - that have befallen a number of...
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    19,08 €

  • Scorpion Rising
    Marilyn Todd
    Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in southwest Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred-Handed. She soon finds there is a darker force at work; the Scorpion, master of disguise, is as cunning as he is ruthless. No one betrays this man and lives. Too late, Claudia discovers it was the Scorpion who lured her to G...
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    19,12 €

  • Widow’s Pique
    Marilyn Todd
    When the King of Histri invites Claudia to visit, she assumes it’s connected to her role as a merchant of fine wines. How wrong can she be? And, before long, all manner of assumptions are proved false. The kingdom is a paradise of rolling vineyards, olive groves and golden beaches lapped by the velvety-warm Adriatic - but the more Claudia learns about Histrian society, the more...
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    18,22 €

  • Second Act
    Marilyn Todd
    A Library Journal Top Mystery Read for 2003!Busy, busy, busy . . . A house full of actors, Saturnalia coming up, the Guilds to outmaneuver, creditors on her back and, ahem, a slight cash-flow problem to deal with; a mother-in-law straining her nerves to breaking point and a certain security policeman, well, disturbing her senses . . . and Claudia doesn’t even know about the mur...
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    18,26 €

  • Dark Horse
    Marilyn Todd
    When Claudia is caught doping racehorses, an island in the Adriatic seems the perfect refuge. Shaded by figs and pomegranates, Leo’s villa is surrounded by plunging cliffs, sandy coves and hillsides scented by carpets of wild herbs. Then a pirate ship anchors in the bay, and almost immediately a fire breaks out, an apprentice is murdered, and sinister messages aredelivered on t...
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    18,09 €

  • Dream Boat
    Marilyn Todd
    Claudia Seferius is broke. Skint. Cleaned out. Bust. When her teenage stepdaughter Flavia is abducted, Claudia can’t just throw money at the problem. The cash simply isn’t there - since her husband died, his fellow businessmen have banded together to freeze her out of trade. The frustratingly delectable Orbilio can’t help - he’s been placed under strict house arrest after a ske...
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    16,56 €

  • Dead & Breakfast and Other Stories
    Marilyn Todd
    Not all detectives are heroes.And when the dead can’t defend themselves, help comes from the most unlikely sources.It might be from P.I.s with offices in unusually high places ('Heaven Knows'). It might come from shapeshifters in love ('Stakes & Adders'). Hell, it could even come from...you’ve guessed it, Hell. ('667, Evil and Then Some'). But whether you’re cruising a narrow b...
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    16,88 €

  • Black Salamander
    Marilyn Todd
    What better opportunity for a beautiful young widow than to join a prestigious trade delegation bound for Gaul? There was the fanfare as the procession left Rome, the breathtaking journey through lush Alpine meadows. And let’s not forget the promise of riches for delivering a certain pouch, sealed with the sign of the black salamander. Except things are never that simple when C...
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    15,75 €

  • Jail Bait
    Marilyn Todd
    The death toll was rising...and not all the symptoms tallied with the plague... A deadly contagion may have sent many of Rome’s wealthier citizens fleeing to the country, but for Claudia Seferius a plague is the least of her worries. For she has 'temporarily borrowed' 3,000 sesterces from local millionaire Sabbio Tullus. OK, so she’d had to break into his depository to get at i...
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    14,85 €

  • Desperate House Wines
    Marilyn Todd
    What pairs best with a chardonnay or a Pinot Noir? Murder!You don’t have to be a literary sommelier to know that a short story by Marilyn Todd is the perfect accompaniment to a glass of fermented grapes at the end of a long day. The dark, red stain of a Cabernet Sauvignon on your lips translates perfectly to the blood stains of the victims within the pages of the crime stories ...
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    16,65 €

  • Wolf Whistle
    Marilyn Todd
    A killer is stalking the backstreets of Rome. Newborn babies are being snatched at night. A small boy is abandoned.Five slave women have been murdered on Market Day. With insurrection bubbling, the authorities don’t have the resources (or the inclination) to follow up.In the back alleys of the capital city, close to one of the ripper’s victims, Claudia finds an abandoned boy an...
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    14,89 €

  • Man Eater
    Marilyn Todd
    On the eve of the Roman festivities, the last thing you’d expect Claudia Seferius to be doing is heading out of the city. Unfortunately, even hedonistic young widows have to put business before pleasure when their vineyards are threatened with arson. Taking a shortcut through the Umbrian countryside, she is forced off the road, and her beloved cat goes missing in the skirmish. ...
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    17,33 €

  • Virgin Territory
    Marilyn Todd
    It just wasn’t fair. When you marry a man for his money, you expect him to leave you a shining pile of gold pieces. Not a crummy old wine business. How was the new young widow Claudia going to pay off her gambling debts now?So when Eugenius Collatinus asks Claudia to chaperone his granddaughter to Sicily she jumps at the chance to escape Rome. It should be easy. Sabina Collatin...
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    14,04 €

  • I, Claudia
    Marilyn Todd
    First in the Claudia Seferius mystery series, set in 13 B. C.!Claudia Seferius has successfully flattered her way into marriage with a wealthy Roman wine merchant. But when her secret gambling debts spiral, she hits on another resourceful way to make money - offering her 'personal services' to high-ranking Roman Citizens.Unfortunately her clients are now turning up dead - the v...
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    14,97 €