The Cybelene Conspiracy - Albert Noyer
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Novel, Historical Fiction
The Cybelene Conspiracy A Getorius and Arcadia Mystery, Book 2 By: Albert Noyer Narrated by: Fleet Cooper Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 11-12-2012 Language: English Publisher: Brilliance Audio, Surgeon Getorius Asterius, his wife Arcadia, the eunuch archpriest of a pagan fertility cult, the female head of a heretical Arian church, and an ambitious senator in league with a Chinese merchant: These are the prime movers in this mystery set in Ravenna, Italy, in A.D. 440. When Getorius is summoned to examine the castrated body of a youth found by Thecla in her Arian church, who is the sobbing Vestal Virgin nearby? Is there any connection between this crime and the fact that a senator is smuggling counterfeit Western coins to the Eastern Empire, and contraband Chinese products back to Ravenna?, A coded message leads to a secret tunnel and the sinister temple of Cybele, whose devotees are self-mutilated eunuchs. In a stunning climax, the conspirators try to esc
