04 The Assassins of Rome: Book 4: No. 4 (The Roman Mysteries) - Tapa dura

Caroline Lawrence will be interviewed on CCBC digital channel programme XChange on 8th January 2003 - shown early in the morning and repeated at lunchtime. Caroline Lawrence is writing a short story for the next issue of Aquila magazine. Whole page feature in Young Writer Magazine Review in The Sunday Times, 1st Dec:"Word of mouth recommendations, and school visits by the author, who describes such fascinating props as the sponge on a stick that the Romans used to wipe their bottoms, have made Caroline Lawrence's Roman Mysteries into one of the success stories of the year. Her novels...are informed by her scholarly knowledge of the classics. Her latest and darkest is The Assassins ofRome." Nicolette Jones

Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work - and they learn what happened to Jonathan's family during the terrible destruction of Jerusalem nine years earlier.