Book Review: Steven Saylor’s Rubicon
There’s panic in Rome as Caesar marches on the city, and Gordianus the Finder discovers the body of Pompey’s favorite cousin. He must find the murderer or Pompey will kill his son-in-law.
There’s panic in Rome as Caesar marches on the city, and Gordianus the Finder discovers the body of Pompey’s favorite cousin. He must find the murderer or Pompey will kill his son-in-law.
Two rich elderly ladies are murdered – money for drugs, it’s thought. But Lucas Davenport begins to see a pattern, an unexpected one. With killers waiting for him.
Throats cut, bodies scourged and put on display with nothing to link them. Lucas Davenport knows it will be bad. Too soon he discovers it will be far worse.
A Russian is killed, bringing in a Russian cop. Lucas Davenport must follow a trail back to another place, another time, and battle the shadows.
Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the throne, is off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an too-convincing death scene…
The happily retired Armand Gamache has found peace. One that’s disturbed when Clara fears for her artist husband, Peter, who hasn’t come home. He’d promised…
Hostile forces are lining up against Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec, and he must save the reputation of the Sûreté, those he holds dear, and himself?
Two people found hanging naked from a tree – a black man and a white woman. A lynching? But Lucas Davenport begins to discover there is worse to come.
An assassin misses, and the no-longer-retired Clara Rinker goes on the hunt to find the killer herself. Anyone standing in the middle won’t stand a chance…
World-famous for their voices, the cloistered monks who have taken a vow of silence experience murder amongst their own, and Gamache must face his demons and those of others.