Virgin Territory

When Eugenius Collatinus asks Claudia Serfius to act as chaperone for his daughter Sabina, who is leaving home from Sicily after thirty years as a Vestal Virgin, she jumps at the chance to escape Rome. Unfortunately, rather too later, it becomes clear that she is escorting an imposter... Back in Rome, investigator Marcus Cornelius fears that Claudia is in very great danger. And there's only one thing he can do: go to Sicily and save that delicious neck of hers.

Then, in the grounds of the Collatinus house, a woman's brutilized body is discovered....