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Current Roman novels:
1. Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 1 of 13)
A thrilling puzzle from the ancient world with real historical characters and based on a case in Cicero's Orations Roman Blood is a perfect blend of mystery and history by a brilliant storyteller.
On an unseasonably warm spring morning in 80BC, Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate and orator preparing his first important case. His client is Umbrian landowner, Sextus Roscius, accused of the unforgivable: the murder of his own father. Gordianus agrees to investigate the crime - in a society fire with deceit, betrayl and conspiracy, where neither citizen nor slave can be trusted to speak the truth. But even Gordianus is not prepared for the spectacularly dangerous fireworks that attend the resolution of this ugly, delicate case...
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1849016056 Pages: 576 Availability and latest price on Amazon:  |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1991 Publisher: Minotaur ISBN: 978-0312064549 Pages: 372 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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2. Arms of Nemesis (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 2 of 13)
South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crasus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacus Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves.
To Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge and Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen just may lead to his own destruction.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1849016131 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1992 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312081355 Pages: 305 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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3. Catilina's Riddle (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 3 of 13)
The year is 63BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman - a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. Gordianus' longtime patron, Cicero, has also achieved the dram of his lifetime - a much coveted consulship, Rome's highest elected office. Urgently, he requests a favour of Gordianus: his help in keeping watch on a radical populist senator, Catilina, suspected of conspiring against the state.
Against his will, Gordianus finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a web of deceit, intrigute and murder.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1849016094 Pages: 736 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1993 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312097639 Pages: 416 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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4. The Venus Throw (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 4 of 13)
On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome - one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has a reputation for solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, asks for something Gordianus cannot give - help in staying alive. And before the night is out, Dio is brutally assassinated. Now Gordianus must begin the most dangerous case of his career.
Hired to investigate Dio's murder by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of intrigue into the highest circles of political power and the city's secret arenas of debauchery. There Gordianus will learn that nothing is as it seems, not the damning evidence he uncovers, nor the suspect he sends to trial, not even the real truth behind Dio's death which also lies shrouded in secrets - though not of the state, but of the heart.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1849016100 Pages: 384 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1995 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312119126 Pages: 308 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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5. A Murder on the Appian Way (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 5 of 13)
52 BC, and Rome is in turmoil. Rival gangs prowl the streets as Publius Clodius, a high-born populist politician, and his arch-enemy Titus Milo fight to control the consular elections. But when Clodius is murdered on the famed Appian Way and Milo is accused of the crime, the city explodes with riots and arson.
As accusations and rumours fly, Gordianus is charged by Pompey the Great with discovering what really happened on the Appian Way that dark January night. Was it murder? And if so, should the perpetrator be condemned as a villain - or hailed as the saviour of the Roman Republic? For on the truth of that hangs the fate of Titus Milo . . .
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1854878915 Pages: 624 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1996 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-1854879721 Pages: 400 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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6. The House of Vestals (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 6 of 13)
It is the Rome of the Late Republic, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble - and dead bodies. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a secret and uncover one, Gordianus lays bare some of his most intriguing adventures in this new volume in Steven Saylor's highly acclaimed mystery series. In 'Little Caesar and the Pirates', Gordianus must act as a go-between for kidnappers, but he begins to wonder who is really being held hostage; in 'The Alexandrian Cat', a mischievous girl and a tell-tale sneeze reveal an ingenious plot of murder and thievery; and in 'The House of the Vestals', blackmail goes horribly wrong and there is no one to take the blame. The result is an engrossing collection of finely wrought mystery tales with all the suspense and craft that are the trademark of Saylor's work.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2012 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1845292492 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1997 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312154448 Pages: 260 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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7. Rubicon (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 7 of 13)
Caesar and his troops have crossed teh Rubicon and ar marching on Rome. Pompey his rival, is preparing to flee south with his loyal troops, leaving the city unguarded and ungoverned. Before Pompey leaves Rome, however, his cousiin and protege is found dead, garotted in Gordianus’s garden. Enraged, Pompey demands that Gordianus discover and name the killer.
With one son a trusted aide of Caesar and his son-in-law held as hostage by Pompey, Gordianus faces a personal crisis: he must learn the secrets of the dead man and reveal a murderer to protect his own family from being crushed by the opposing forces that will forever change the Roman world.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1849016148 Pages: 288 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 1999 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312205768 Pages: 276 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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8. Last Seen in Massilia (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 8 of 13)
As civil war between Caesar and Pompey engulfs the Roman world, Gordianus the Finder receives an anonymous message informing him of the death of his son Meto who has been acting as a double agent for Caesar. The search for Meto's fate brings Gordianus to the besieged seaport of Massilia, which is stubbornly holding out against Caesar's troops. As famine and slaughter threaten the blockaded city, Gordianus is drawn into the intrigues of exiled Romans and duplicitous Massilians. His only friend in the city, Hieronymous, has been made the doomed scapegoat elected by city officials to bear the sins of the populace and save them all from annihilation.
Meanwhile, Gordianus is constantly frustrated in his efforts to find out what happened to his son - and when he witnesses the fall of a young woman from a precipice outside the city called the Sacrifice Rock, then the plot begins to thicken...
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2005 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1845292430 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2000 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312209285 Pages: 277 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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9. A Mist of Prophecies (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 9 of 13)
During the Roman Civil War, as the forces of Pompey and Julius Caesar fight a series of battles in the provinces over control of the Republic, Rome itself is a hotbed of intrigue as those left behind wait for word. In this tentative and treacherous environment, a beautiful young seeress is murdered in the marketplace. Possibly mad and claiming no memory of her own past, Cassandra - like her namesake - is reputed to have had the true gift of prophecy and, as a result, she became a confidante of the rich and powerful. Gordianus the Finder, who had become obsessed with the woman and her mystery, starts to investigate her murder.
As the political situation in Rome continues to decay, the citizenry veers towards ruin, and everyone waits for word out in the far off fields of war, Gordianus begins to peel away the veils of secrecy that surround Cassandra's life and death. What lies underneath involves one, possibly many, of the most powerful women in Rome and the truth could not only put Gordianus's life in danger but affect the very future of Rome itself.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2012 Publisher: Robinson Publishing ISBN: 978-1845292423 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2002 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312271213 Pages: 288 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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10. The Judgement of Caesar (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 10 of 13)
Gordianus the Finder and his ailing wife Bethesda travel to Egypt - Bethesda's homeland - seeking a cure for her enduring, mysterious illness. They arrive as the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey is reaching its conclusion on its shores. Captured by Pompey, but rescued by Ptolemy's men who kill Pompey for Caesar, Gordianus is caught in the middle of the struggle between Ptolemy and his sister Cleopatra, Caesar's seduction by Cleopatra, and the dying days of the Roman Republic.
When his wife disappears into the Nile, never to resurface, Gordianus must uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious occurrences if he is to find out what has happened to his wife, now presumed dead.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 978-0007437122 Pages: 392 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2004 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312271190 Pages: 304 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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11. A Gladiator Dies Only Once (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 11 of 13)
Gordianus the Finder, famed detective of Ancient Rome, returns in a riveting of stories. Nine tales of murder and intrigue take him from the seamy streets of Rome to elegant villas on the Bay of Naples, from the spectacular backdrop of a chariot race to a domestic dispute with his Egyptian concubine Bethesda. In the title story a beautiful Nubian actress begs Gordianus to solve an impossible problem: how can she have just seen her beloved brother in the market place when she had previously watched him die a gruesome death as a gladiator?
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1845292348 Pages: 372 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2005 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1845291259 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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12. The Triumph of Caesar (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 12 of 13)
The new novel in the "Roma Sub Rosa" series is set against the background of Caesar's stupendous quadruple triumphs in Rome in 46 BC, full of colour and spectacle. Having obliterated the opposition, Caesar is now dictator for life. In the upcoming celebrations, "Vercingetorix the Gaul" is scheduled to be executed, as is Arsinoe, the sister of Cleopatra...and Cleopatra herself is in Rome on a state visit, trying to convince Caesar to acknowledge their son as his heir.Marc Antony and Caesar are at odds; Cicero is making a fool of himself with a new teenage bride; and Caesar's wife Calpurnia, having fallen under the spell of an Etruscan soothsayer, is convinced of a plot on her husband's life.
Murder and intrigue again draw Gordianus into the vortex of history.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2009 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1845298999 Pages: 336 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2008 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1845295677 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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13. The Throne of Caesar (Roma Sub Rosa series: book 13 of 13)
It's Rome, 44 AD, and the Ides of March are approaching. Julius Caesar has been appointed Dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends, Caesar is now preparing to leave Rome with his army to fight the Parthian Empire.
Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has finally retired. But on the morning of March 10th, he's summoned to meet with Cicero and Caesar himself. Both have the same request - keep your ear to the ground, ask around, and find out if there are any conspiracies against Caesar's life. Caesar, however, has one other important matter to discuss - he is going to make Gordianus a Senator when he attends the next session on the 15th of March.
With only four days left before he's made a Senator, Gordianus must dust off his old skills and see what conspiracy against Julius Caesar, if any, he can uncover. Because the Ides of March are approaching...
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2019 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472123633 Pages: 400 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
Latest edition: 2018 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472123626 Pages: 400 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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14. The Seven Wonders (Ancient World series: book 1 of 3)
Steven Saylor takes readers back to the younger days of Gordianus the Finder. The year is 92BC and Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called 'The Finder' - that title belongs to his father, who we meet in these pages. But at each of the Seven Wonders, the wide-eyed Roman encounters a mystery to challenge his powers of deduction. Here is a portrait of a master sleuth in the making, the earliest exploits of the man who will become the most sought-after investigator in Rome. Accompanying Gordianus on this travels is his tutor, Antipater of Sidon, the world's most celebrated poet. Together, teacher and pupil journey to the fabled cities of Greece and Asia Minor, and then on to Babylon and Egypt. They attend the Olympic Games, take part in exotic festivals, and marvel at the most spectacular constructions ever devised by mankind.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2013 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1780338767 Pages: 432 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2012 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1845295684 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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15. Raiders of the Nile (Ancient World series: book 2 of 3)
Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest and haphazard fashion. But then Bethesda is kidnapped by mistake. With few resources available to him, Gordianus has to find the people who kidnapped her and get her back - before they realise they have the wrong woman and dispose of her for good.
A raid on the golden tomb of Alexander the Great, a semi-shady troupe of travelling performers, highwaymen, amorous innkeepers, the politics of the pharaohs, smugglers, camels and an adventure up the Nile all combine to make this a rescue mission neither Gordianus - or Bethesda - will ever forget.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2015 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472101976 Pages: 400 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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Latest edition: 2014 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472101969 Pages: 384 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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16. Wrath of the Furies (Ancient World series: book 3 of 3)
In 88 B.C., it seems as if the entire ancient world is at war. In the west, the Italian states are rebelling against Rome; in the east, Mithridates is marching through and conquering the Roman Asian provinces. Even in the relatively calm Alexandria, a coup has brought a new Pharaoh to power and chaos to the streets. 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, which have their own plans for Gordianus. Not entirely sure whether he's a player or a pawn, Gordianus must unravel the mystery behind the message if he's to save himself and the people he holds most dear.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2017 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472101990 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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Latest edition: 2016 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472101983 Pages: 320 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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17. Roma (Rome series: book 1 of 3)
"Roma" is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders and merchants and the founding of the city itself by Romulus and Remus, critically acclaimed historical novelist Steven Saylor tells the epic saga of a city and its people, its rise to prominence among the city-states of the area, and, ultimately, dominance over the entire ancient Western world.
From the tragedy of Coriolanus, to the Punic Wars and the invasion by Hannibal, the triumph and murder of Julius Caesar, and the rise and decline of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of Imperial Rome, Saylor's breathtaking novel brings to vivid life the most famous city of the ancient world. "Roma" is Saylor's finest achievement, an epic in the truest sense of the word.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Corsair ISBN: 978-1849016049 Pages: 688 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
Latest edition: 2007 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312328313 Pages: 555 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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18. Empire (Rome series: book 2 of 3)
In the international bestseller "Roma", Steven Saylor told the story of the first thousand years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in "Empire", Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian.
Through the eyes of the Pinarii, we witness the machinations of Tiberius, the madness of Caligula, the cruel escapades of Nero, and the chaos of the Year of Four Emperors in 69 A.D. The deadly paranoia of Domitian is followed by the Golden Age of Trajan and Hadrianobut even the most enlightened emperors wield the power to inflict death and destruction on a whim. "Empire" is strewn with spectacular scenes, including the Great Fire of 64 A.D. that ravaged the city, Nero's terrifying persecution of the Christians, and the mind-blowing opening games of the Colosseum. But at the novel's heart are the wrenching choices and seductive temptations faced by each new generation of the Pinarii. One unwittingly becomes the sexual plaything of the notorious Messalina. One enters into a clandestine affair with a Vestal virgin. One falls under the charismatic spell of Nero, while another is drawn into the strange new cult of those who deny the gods and call themselves Christians. However diverse their destinies and desires, all the Pinarii are united by one thing: the mysterious golden talisman called the fascinum handed down from a time before Rome existed. As it passes from generation to generation, the fascinum seems to exercise a power not only over those who wear it, but over the very fate of the empire.
Paperback:
 Latest edition: 2011 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1849016025 Pages: 720 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2010 Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 978-0312381011 Pages: 589 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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19. Dominus (Rome series: book 3 of 3)
A.D. 165: The empire of Rome has reached its pinnacle. Pax Roma reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece. Emperor Marcus Aurelius oversees a golden age and the ancient Pinarius family of artisans embellish the greatest city on Earth with gilded statues and towering marble monuments. But history does not stand still. The years to come bring wars, plagues, fires, and famines. The best emperors in history are succeeded by some of the worst. Barbarians descend, eventually appearing before the gates of Rome itself. Chaos engulfs the empire.
Through it all, the Pinarius family endures, thanks in no small part to the fascinum, a protective talisman older than Rome itself, handed down through countless generations.
But on the fringes of society, a band of troublesome cultists disseminate dangerous and seditious ideas. They call themselves Christians. Some emperors deal with the Christians with toleration, others with bloody persecution. Then one emperor does the unthinkable. He becomes a Christian himself and the revolution he sets in motion will change the world forever.
Hardcover:
 Latest edition: 2021 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472123657 Pages: 496 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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Latest edition: 2022 Publisher: Constable ISBN: 978-1472123688 Pages: 512 Availability and latest price on Amazon: |
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