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The Detective and The Toga

The Detective and the Toga, one of the Internet’s best troves for ancient Roman detective novels, has included Murder in-absentia in his listing!
http://histmyst.org/miscellany.html#murderinabsentia

Celebrating Murder in-absentia now fully available

Murder in-absentiais now fully available for Kindle and in print.

To celebrate I will be posting some more Felix short stories I have been preparingfor this day :-) A new story will be coming every week.

Burnt

The events in this story take place about three years before those of Murder in-absentia.

I pushed the burnt body with the toe of my boot. The charred remains shifted, slid, turned over. The face was still barely recognisable, as the burns were from the legs up. Or whatever that remained of the legs, that is, the charred femurs were sticking out of the stumps of black flesh that used to be a person.

“We are certainly on the right track, then,” I said to Milon. I didn’t know who the dead man...