Finished Business: Marcus Corvinus #16
David Wishart's "Finished Business" is the sixteenth in the series, so Marcus Corvinus is aging a bit now, and becomes a grandfather when his adopted daughter and her husband have their first child....
View ArticleSolid Citizens
Before receiving David Wishart's new novel Solid Citizens, I'd already read Ovid, Germanicus, and Sejanus, also Roman mysteries by the same author. I discovered that Solid Citizens is actually the...
View ArticleTrade Secrets
By now, whenever Marcus and Perilla start talking about having a relaxing time, I'm pretty sure someone's about to find a dead body. This time, it comes from one of the matrons in Perilla's book club...
View ArticleThe Price of Freedom: A Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain
The Price of Freedom is the seventeenth in Rosemary Rose's Libertus mystery series. By this point, the pavement-laying crime-solver is now a citizen, and the story opens with his patron, Marcus,...
View ArticleLibertus The Pavement-Maker: Dark Omens
I’ve read most — but not all — of this series, so when I find one I haven’t gotten to read yet, it’s like a little visit with my old friend Libertus. Let’s see what Libertus and faithful Gwellia are...
View ArticleForeign Bodies (Marcus Corvinus, #18)
In the next Marcus Corvinus adventure, Foreign Bodies, the new emperor Claudius requests some help looking into the death of a family friend. The unfortunate victim was living in Lugdunum, in the wilds...
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