Bruce Macbain
In the Grip of the Minotaur
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The story is set in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, where King Minos rules the sea with his fleet and terrorizes his enemies with ...Read Review
Eye of the Red Tsar
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This debut novel of intrigue centers on the execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. The hero is Pekkala, ...Read Review
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England
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If I were going to write a novel set in medieval England, this book would be my bible. Mortimer packs an amazing amount ...Read Review
Homer & Langley
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For a review suited to this journal, it is well to begin by pointing out that the novel is not, and does not ...Read Review
Cleopatra’s Daughter
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In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, were taken to Rome ...Read Review
Roman Diary
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The subtitle of this illustrated children’s book is “The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Who Was Captured and Sold as a Slave ...Read Review
The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln
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Originally published in 1979 and now reissued to coincide with the Lincoln bicentennial, the novel purports to be a manuscript written by one Nicholas ...Read Review
Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
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The study of women in antiquity has already seen a great deal of important scholarship. In this book, the author undertakes a sweeping ...Read Review
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
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The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled pugilism. In 1880, ...Read Review
SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead
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In this, the twelfth of Roberts’ Roman mystery series featuring his sleuth Decius Caecilius Metellus, Italy is on the brink of civil war. ...Read Review
