1st Century
The Emperor’s Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19)
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This is the latest book in the saga of Macro and Cato, books which have taken them far and wide in the Roman ...Read Review
The Shepherd’s Wife (Jerusalem Road)
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Sisters Pheodora and Damaris are different in almost every way but most especially in status. While Damaris’s wealthy husband is being given ...Read Review
Into the Unbounded Night
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Rome is falling from the edges inward and from the core out. The moral lessons for our own time of a falling empire ...Read Review
Daughter of Black Lake: A Novel
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Britain, first century AD. Hobble lives in a secluded community. Years ago, her grandfather and uncles went off to battle the invading Romans, ...Read Review
Daughter of Cana (Jerusalem Road)
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This novel opens at a rather famous wedding in Cana in 27 CE: far more people arrive than originally invited, and halfway through the ...Read Review
The Grove of the Caesars: Flavia Albia 8
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This is the eighth book in Lindsey Davis’s mystery series featuring Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, an investigator in ancient ...Read Review
Simon versus Simon: The Story of Lucius and the Magician’s Duel
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Like the sons of most wealthy Roman patricians, Lucius prefers to have fun with his friends rather than settle down. In despair, his ...Read Review
Hiding From the Past: An Eighth Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
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A murder from the past and an ambush on a hurried trip by Pliny the Younger in 87 CE to join his best friend, ...Read Review
The Book of Longings
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Kidd has taken a concept which could have been seriously strained – imagining the life of the woman who married Jesus in 1st-century Judea – ...Read Review
The Lost Chapter
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Nero rules Rome in the first century AD and is destroying its best citizens with his ever-growing perversity, cruelty, and terrifying reprisals. Marius, ...Read Review