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Buried Too Deep: An Aurelia Marcella Roman Mystery: An Aurelia Marcella Mystery (Aurelia Marcella Roman Series) [Kindle Edition]

Jane Finnis (Author)
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The spring of 98 AD is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia. The season looks set fair for peace and prosperity and business is brisk at Aurelia Marcella’s inn on the road to York.

Then a wagon arrives bearing a local farmer seeking treatment for a grievous sword wound. Before the farmer dies, he tells Aurelia his family is in grave danger and hints that her sister’s family, living near him, is threatened too. Aurelia sends for her twin brother Lucius, who is a government investigator. Together they head for the eastern coast to find out more, and to check out a shipwreck bearing valuable official cargo. A band of piratical Gauls is working the area—are they cover for something worse?

The aura of peace cracks further as friction between native farmers and Roman settlers over ownership of the best farmland turns to open violence. Both sides resort to terrorist tactics: stealing, kidnapping, and murder, all building to a terrible climax at the annual festival for the sea god. Underneath it all flows a current of subtle, personal agendas....

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When a wounded farmer dies at their inn, twins Aurelia Marcella and her brother Lucius head for the coast to return the man's body to his family and to investigate a shipwreck bearing cargo that may have been stolen by outlaw sea raiders who are suspected of killing the farmer, only to find themselves caught in the middle of an escalating feud betw

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 607 KB
  • Print Length: 357 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 159058399X
  • Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press (1 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003VIX1HM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #189,997 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By J. Chippindale TOP 500 REVIEWER
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The author Jane Finnis was born in Britain, in what she describes in her own words as "God's Own Country, Yorkshire." As I too am from Yorkshire it is not a statement I am about to argue with. She studied history at London University and then stayed on in the capital and worked for some years as a freelance broadcaster for the BBC. She is now settled back in Yorkshire, close to the coast. She has always had a love of the Roman era and when she finally found time to do some writing, it seemed to be the obvious period in which to set her books.

98 AD and Aurelia Marcella is a happy lady, but not for long. The inn that she runs on the road to York with her twin brother Lucius is doing very well. Aurelia has had a trying time over the last few months and craves a little peace and quiet but twin brother Lucius attracts trouble like the inn's wine dregs attract the flies.

When a local farmer is brought to the inn in a wagon with a sword wound and seeking the help of a local Greek doctor, Aurelia smells trouble. When the poor farmer dies the twins head to the coast to return his body to his relatives and also to check out a shipwreck that was bearing a valuable cargo. It is thought that the sea raiders who stole the cargo, also fatally wounded the farmer.

Unlike the native Britain's in the south of the country who have become Romanised and taken up the ways of the empire, the Britain's in the north have no such liking for the colonists, or their ways and claim that the colonists are taking the best land. The killing of the farmer does nothing but fuel the flames of the local plotting and rebellion against Rome and Aurelia and Lucius find themselves slap bang in the middle of it all . . .
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
great ancient world whodunit 15 Jun 2008
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
In 98 AD Britannia, twins Aurelia and Lucius Marcella own and operate the Oak Tree Mansio nicely situated on the road that links the coast and Ebvracvm (York). With hostilities abated, business at the inn is booming as travelers make the trek.

A wagon arrives carrying a farmer severely injured by a sword; he needs immediate medical attention or he will die; he tells the Marcellas that sea raiders attacked him while they plundered the cargo of a shipwreck. By the time the Greek physician arrived, the man is dead. Feeling obligated, the siblings take the deceased back to his family near the coast. They also investigate the shipwreck and soon learn the locals are in revolt as outsiders mostly from Gaul have settled on the best land claiming the natives deserve nothing for plotting against Rome.

The third novel Marcella historical mystery (see BITTER CHILL circa 95 AD and GET OUT OR DIE circa 91 AD) is a terrific entry in an exciting series. Aurelia thinks she committed a kunahaura when she realizes things are looking good as business is booming until she states just that before the farmer dies. She and Lucius quickly realize when they reach the Gabreantovicium Sinvs (the coastal bay to their east) that the locals and the Gaul settlers use terrorist tactics to drive each other out; outsiders are not welcome in their civil war. Jane Finnis provides a great ancient world whodunit as the twins begin to uncover an even more insidious brilliant plot.

Harriet Klausner
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Buried Too Deep ..by Jane Finnis 17 July 2008
By Kathleen Ingram - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
By now I feel that Aurelia and her siblings are friends of mine.My motive for reading the first offering, to learn more about life in Roman Britain has been more than fulfilled.
Roman citizens and natives alike are portrayed in a fashion that makes them endearing and seem contemporary. Bene Est!
Kathleen Ingram
Good story, bad dialogue 21 May 2012
By AJ - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the third book in the series. After finishing it, I have come to the conclusion that while the story lines are good, and the mysteries interesting, the dialogue between characters is seriously lacking. It is at best sophomoric. Can't imagine any adults speaking this way. And it made for tiresome reading. If there's a fourth book, I won't be reading it. Try Lindsey Davis or Ruth Downie. Great dialogue in those.
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