Giveaway of paperback copy of "Furies: An Ancient Alexandrian Thriller" by D.L. Johnstone

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This week at I Read a Book Once we're giving away a paperback copy of Furies: An Ancient Alexandrian Thriller by D.L. Johnstone. Below you'll find a short description of the book.

It's 36 AD. The city of Alexandria is a center of Roman commerce--and a sinful playground for the pleasure-seeking rich and powerful.

For wealthy merchant Decimus Tarquitius Aculeo, however, Alexandria has become a living hell. Ruined by a string of mysterious investment disasters, deserted by friends and family, his reputation in tatters, Aculeo is forced to eke out a meagre existence in the poorest, back streets of the city. He's desperate to find the man he blames for the debacle and recover what he's lost.

Aculeo's quest forces him deep into treacherous, unfamiliar territory, Alexandria's criminal underworld. And entangles him in a web of corruption, conspiracy and murder.

A common slave is found murdered in the magnificent temple of the god Serapis. Days later, the brutalized body of a high-priced hetaira is discovered floating in a canal, after an evening entertaining the city's elite. The grim truth soon becomes clear: a ruthless killer is moving among Alexandria's aristocrats, commercial titans, and philosophers.

And ominous clues connect those murders to Aculeo's quest, with disturbing revelations about his own past.

If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, head on over here and sign up using the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of the post. Only domestic U.S. entrants are eligible to win the paperback copy; however, international entrants can win an electronic copy instead.