Roma Sub Rosa series
Author
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the best-selling Roma Sub Rosa series traces 18-year-old Gordianus's journey to the Seven Wonders of the World, each of which pose a mystery that challenges his budding powers of deduction and the tenacity of celebrated poet Antipater of Sidon, who fakes his death to accompany young Gordianus.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity. But on the day Gordianus turns twenty-two, Bethesda...
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The young Gordianus has been waiting out the chaos in Alexandria, with Bethesda, when he gets a cryptic message from his former tutor and friend, Antipater. Now in Ephesus, as part of Mithridates' entourage, Antipater seems to think that his life is in imminent danger. To rescue him, Gordianus concocts a daring, even foolhardy, scheme to go behind enemy lines and bring Antipater to safety. But there are powerful, and deadly forces, at work here,...
4) Roman blood
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus...
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The year is 63 B.C., and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. At the same time, Gordianus's longtime patron Cicero has attained the dream of his lifetime: a coveted consulship. Urgently, Cicero requests of Gordianus a favor: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina....
9)
The Venus throw , Roma Sub Rosa series volume 9
Author
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
11) Rubicon
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
12)
Last seen in Massilia , Roma Sub Rosa series volume 12
Author
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 48 B.C., civil war rages across the Roman world. While Caesar and Pompey fight on distant battlefields, the powerful women left behind in Rome spin their own webs of intrigue and betrayal. When the beautiful young Cassandra staggers across the Roman Forum and dies in the arms of Gordianus the Finder, he becomes obsessed with finding her killer. Like her Trojan namesake, Cassandra was a seeress. To hear her prophecies, many paid handsomely. To silence...
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Gordianus the Finder becomes caught in a tangle of political intrigue when he travels to Egypt seeking a cure for his ailing wife, Bethesda, and finds himself instead trying to prove the innocence of Meto, the son he disowned, who is suspected of trying to poison Caesar and Cleopatra.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English