The result is a talky, absorbing brew of Rome's decay.
Saylor gives the widow a gloriously handsome, incest-inclined brother and sets his tale simmering with eroticism, adding engrossing historical filler about Roman law, politics and goddess cults. A beautiful, sex-hungry widow accuses Gordianus's neighbor, a young, loudmouthed lawyer, of murdering Dio, and she hires Gordianus to prove her charges.
Gordianus looks into the doings of his late teacher's companion, the eunuch priest Trygonion, who had accompanied Dio that evening. Poor Dio dies that night anyway, stabbed and poisoned. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder. It is the fourth book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery novels set in the final decades of the Roman Republic. Dio, whose fellow delegates are being killed, fears being poisoned so Gordianus offers him an untainted dinner. The Venus Throw is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. In his fourth adventure, in 56 B.C., Gordianus is visited by Dio, his teacher of Greek philosophy 30 years earlier in Alexandria, who is now on an Egyptian delegation to Rome. Saylor (Catilina's Riddle) has established a fine reputation with his mystery novels set in ancient Rome and starring Gordianus the Finder, an early PI.
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