Book Review: Peter Tremayne’s The Seventh Trumpet
Murder, intrigue, conspiracy, and great danger await Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf as they try to reconcile the murder of a young noble with a militant abbott.
Genre: historical mystery
Book Review: Charles Todd’s A Question of Honor
An horrific truth, a murder kept secret, from Bess Crawford’s life in India. Lying, damning facts that reveal a brutal reality that could have been her own fate.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s A Murder on the Appian Way
In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician whose assassination threatens to destroy the Republic.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The House of the Vestals
An anthology of nine short stories with one short story that takes place well before this book’s publication (as #6 in the series) and the other eight taking place between the first and the second in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Roman mystery series.
Book Review: Jacqueline Winspear’s An Incomplete Revenge
Maisie Dobbs travels to Kent to investigate a series of fires, a family of Dutch bakers who were killed during WWI in a zeppelin attack and the theft of some silver.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s The Venus Throw
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders, but the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give—help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Catilina’s Riddle
Rome is divided between Cicero and Catilina in the consular elections, and Cicero pulls Gordianus the Finder out of retirement to find the dirt on Catilina. In this cloak-and-dagger political struggle, Gordianus wonders about the truth of Catilina until a headless corpse ominously appears on his farm.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Seven Wonders
It’s 92 B.C. and eighteen-year-old Gordianus embarks on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Not yet called “the Finder”, Gordianus encounters a mystery at each of the Wonders to challenge his powers of deduction.
Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Arms of Nemesis
When Marcus Crassus’ overseer is found hideously murdered with a note left, a mysterious client hires Gordianus the Finder to find out the truth about the murder. Before Crassus’ vow to slaughter his remaining slaves in three days.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Family Way
The pregnant Molly Sullivan has been sent to Daniel’s mother in Westchester. Being Molly, she discovers an Irish maid and five babies missing.