The historical events of Brides of Rome have been covered so many times in other novels. It's really hard to bring…
The Rome of Fall, by Chad Alan Gibbs, blends 90s nostalgia, small-town football obsession, and Julius Caesar for a strangely…
In The Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman, Jane Hudson has returned to her old boarding school as a…
Excerpt from my review over on Online Book Club a while ago: Apollo’s Raven by Linnea Tanner is historical fantasy,…
I've read most -- but not all -- of this series, so when I find one I haven't gotten to…
Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King tells the story of a kitchen slave, Thrasius, and his owner, the gourmand Apicius.…
The Price of Freedom is the seventeenth in Rosemary Rose's Libertus mystery series. By this point, the pavement-laying crime-solver is…
By now, whenever Marcus and Perilla start talking about having a relaxing time, I'm pretty sure someone's about to find…
In Donna Tartt's The Secret History, murder, lies, and classical studies blend in a suspense novel of moral questions. Richard…
In Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire Ruth Downie uses the tensions between Roman army and British locals to create a…
The beginning of The Chef's Secret starts a bit slowly, or maybe I was just disappointed that it wasn't set in ancient…
Before receiving David Wishart's new novel Solid Citizens, I'd already read Ovid, Germanicus, and Sejanus, also Roman mysteries by the…
David Wishart's "Finished Business" is the sixteenth in the series, so Marcus Corvinus is aging a bit now, and becomes…