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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves, all of them, guilty or not, were presumed responsible and were put to death. Without exception. When a couple is found...
Author
Publisher
Spanish Pubs Llc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
In 48 B.C., Romulus and Tarquinius have finally made it as far as Alexandria. On arrival, though, they find themselves in the midst of the Roman Civil War, are press-ganged into Caesar's thinning legions, and greatly outnumbered and fighting for their lives against the Egyptian army.
Author
Series
Rome novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything, especially the lives of two sisters. Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. Her sister Marcella is more aloof, content to witness history. But when a bloody coup turns their world upside-down, both women must maneuver carefully just to stay alive.
Author
Series
Flavia Albia mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a fatal accident, an investigation that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia's reputation at stake.
Author
Series
Caselli and Torre novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, both still recovering from personal catastrophies, team up to solve the series of killings and abductions that ensues. As they follow the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, one thing becomes clear: what's really going on is much darker than anyone imagined.--
7) Suburra
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Suburra takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for control of a glittering prize--control over a multibillion dollar development twenty miles from the Italian capital. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a massive development proposal that will turn the depressed coastal settlement...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Russo and Tilla's excitement upon arriving in Rome with their baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too may doctors--some skilled, but others positively dangerous. Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his predecessor, Doctor Kleitos, has fled, leaving a dead man in...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events"--
Author
Series
SPQR mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Dictator Caius Julius Caesar rankles the public by bringing in foreign astronomers and astrologers to revise the Roman calendar, overseer Decius finds himself investigating the murders of two of the foreign consultants, which are linked to an Indianfortune teller.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On 11 July 1982, Elisa Sordi was beautiful. Commissario Michele Balistreri was fearless. Italy was victorious. A killer was waiting. On 9 July 2006, with Sordi's case 24 years cold, and Balistreri haunted by guilt and regret, Italian victory returned. And so did Sordi's killer. But this time Michele Balistreri would be ready. This time he would fear no evil.
12) The third Nero
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work. Flavia...
14) Roma eterna
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A tale of an Imperial Rome that never fell follows the great city as it continues to expand its civilization, from the conquest of the Mayans of Mexico to the attempt of the Hebrews to flee Rome's tyranny by escaping to another planet.
Author
Series
Poisoner mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
16) Caesar's women
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Rome, 68 BC:
Caesar has returned to Rome.
Having cut his teeth campaigning in the East, his sites are now set on a new battlefield: the Forum Romanum.
This war will be waged with rhetoric and seduction, weapons Caesar will wield with cunning and ruthlessness. Cuckolding political enemies is but a tactic in a broader strategy: Caesar knows that the key to Rome lies with its noblewomen. Whether the powerful, vindictive Servilia, whose...
Caesar has returned to Rome.
Having cut his teeth campaigning in the East, his sites are now set on a new battlefield: the Forum Romanum.
This war will be waged with rhetoric and seduction, weapons Caesar will wield with cunning and ruthlessness. Cuckolding political enemies is but a tactic in a broader strategy: Caesar knows that the key to Rome lies with its noblewomen. Whether the powerful, vindictive Servilia, whose...
17) Adua
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A searing novel about a young immigrant woman's dream of freedom in Rome and the legacies of her African past.
Author
Series
Rome novels (Federico Moccia) volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After spending two years in New York, Step returns to Rome. His memories of Babi have stayed with him all this time, and his biggest fear is the moment he sees her again. He also realizes that things have changed, and that, little by little, he will have to rebuild his life again in Italy, making new friends, getting a job, and starting a new life. When he meets Gin, an optimistic and special woman, it seems that maybe he can fall in love again and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together. Also, his contracting...
20) Death in Rome
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A former Nazi general, now training Arab terrorists, attends a family reunion in Rome, his son being a priest. The novel chronicles his disgust with a degenerate city which he knew as a conqueror and his attempt to get even with the Jews by seducing a barmaid, an attempt that backfires when she turns out to be a Catholic. By the author of Pigeons on the Grass.
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