Year of the Bat: A Justin and Sophie Mystery - A Novel

Year of the Bat is the sixth volume in the continuing saga of Justin and Sophie Cataphlates, a very unlikely husband-and-wife crime-fighting team. The book is set in the year 1010, where Justin is now deputy treasurer of the Roman Empire (which we now call Byzantine), while Sophie has become chief lady-in-waiting to princesses Zoe and Theodora, the daughters of Emperor Constantine VIII, who, with his older brother Basil II, reigns in Constantinople.

This book sees our resourceful couple voya...