num_pages: 248
description: The latest adventure for glamorous Roman sleuth Claudia. Blackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in south-west Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred-Handed. She soon finds there is a darker force at work; the Scorpion, master of disguise, is as cunning as he is ruthless. No one betrays this man and lives. Too late, Claudia discovers it was the Scorpion who lured her to Gaul in the first place . . .
language: English
title: Scorpion Rising
titlecomplete: Scorpion Rising (Claudia Seferius, #13)
genres: Historical Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 35
series: Claudia Seferius
publisher: Severn House