The Wolf and the Lamb - Jerusalem, Bk 4 Author:Frederick Ramsay It's Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time -- reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his own business. But Gamaliel is a just man which is, as Pilate ... more »says to him, "your weakness and also your strength." Knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his position, possibly his life, Gamaliel, as would Sherlock Holmes centuries later, examines evidence and sorts through tangled threads, teasing out suspects who include assassins, Roman nobles, Pilate's wife, rogue legionnaires, slaves, servants, thespians, and a race horse named Pegasus.
Frederick Ramsey's brilliantly inventive Biblical tale of an assassination plot gone awry is wonderfully evocative and full of convincing character and detail of the era. Readers will become enmeshed in the race against time to solve the mystery.« less