Child of Saturn (The Wall Country Saga Book 1)

A murder without a body. A father convinced he is his young daughter s killer as he descends into madness. A close-knit community baying for vengeance. All this adds up to a monumentally bad week for the Roman cavalry officer, Quintus Clarus Sabinus tasked with solving the mystery. A man typically used to tracking down stolen chickens or settling petty property disputes. To make it worse he's saddled with Appia Melania, the aunt of the missing girl; an outspoken harpy who naturally hates him on sight. Together the trail of evidence takes them from the third century fort of Vindolanda, to the provincial capital of Eburacum itself. A path that seems to go beyond a simple murder, and involve a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of the Roman government.