Major Themes
- Investigation into the murder of Aurelius Chrysippus.
- Falco's family: Falco's feud with his sister Junia, development of a relationship between his sister Maia and his friend Lucius Petronius Longus, and intensification of the feud between the Didii and Anacrites, which reaches a climax in Nemesis.
- Beginning of a new plot through the series, which runs through A Body in the Bath House and The Jupiter Myth.
- An insight into banking and finance in Rome.
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