'It's a funny thing about holidays in the country, but after only a few days away you feel as if you've been out of circulation for a month...' Holidaying out in the sticks in the Alban Hills, Marcus Corvinus is bored out of his skull until, conveniently, one of the candidates for the position of local censor is found murdered. So who killed Bolanus? Can Corvinus find the murderer before the Latin Festival raises the stakes? How do the Latin Nationalists fit into the picture? And last but not least, what exactly is his chef Meton up to in the kitchen with Dassa the Sheep? Corvinus doesn't know any of the answers, either. The eighth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.