Domina: Murder and Intrigue in Ancient Rome (signed first edition)

Paul Doherty

ISBN 10: 0747271666 / ISBN 13: 9780747271666

Published by headline, London, 2002

About this Item

True (UK) first edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. The first book in this historical mystery series set in Ancient Rome. Hardcover. 274 pp. Agrippina--mother of Nero, wife of Claudius--comes vividly to life in this exciting new novel set in Ancient Rome, whose glory and power, ostentation and sensual depravity mask a treacherous society that is like a gladiatorial arena. But as she rises to power as the wife of Claudius, her one weakness becomes apparent: her ambitious love for her son, Nero. As the relationship between mother and son crumbles, Agrippina knows what the future must hold: kill or be killed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Domina: Murder and Intrigue in Ancient Rome (signed first edition)
• Publisher: headline, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747271666
• ISBN 13: 9780747271666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical mystery

About this title

Synopsis

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of Agrippina's battle to survive in and control the depraved and violent Imperial Roman court, and the crumbling relationship between mother and son.

From the Publisher

Historically informative, skillfully plotted, and superbly entertaining, these novels are the work of a master storyteller. Paul Doherty, who earned a doctorate in History from Oxford University, is the author of a number of successful historical mystery series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Alexander the Great mysteries, and the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries. Writing pseudonymously as C.L. Grace, he is also the author of The Canterbury Tales of Kathryn Swinbrooke series.