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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A.D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Universal peace—the Pax Roma—reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome. The ancient Pinarius family and their workshop of artisans embellish the richest and greatest city on earth with gilded statues and towering marble monuments. Art and reason flourish. But history does not stand...
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 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,...
5) Rubicon
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
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 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 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...
10) 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 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.
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