John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.92 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-27257-9
The first line of Roberts's (Saturnalia) sixth SPQR
mystery, "I blame it all on Alexander the Great," sets the tone for this briskly paced, lighthearted Roman historical. Decius Caecillus Mettellus, the would-be playboy son of an...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . Ace $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-00933-6
What would have happened if Hannibal had received the reinforcements necessary for him to topple the Roman Empire? That fascinating "what if" is the central premise of Roberts's (the SPQR
series) latest historical novel, which begins...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-30488-1
In this delightful historical, the seventh of Roberts's SPQR books (after 2001's Nobody Loves a Centurion), Decius Caecilius Metellus has left service in Gaul with his uncle (by marriage), Julius Caesar, and returned home to Rome. As a...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-32319-6
In Roberts's entertaining, fast-paced Roman historical, his eighth to feature Decius Caecilius Metellus (after 2003's The Tribune's Curse
), Decius has just become an aedile, a city manager responsible for overseeing urban infrastructure,
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-33723-0
In Roberts's gripping ninth Roman historical (after 2004's The River God's Vengeance
), former aedile Decius Caecilius Metellus is dispatched from Rome by his patrician family to deal with a resurgence in piracy to Cyprus, where he...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-312-33725-4
The political turmoil that precedes Julius Caesar's return to Rome serves as the compelling backdrop for Roberts's 10th historical to feature nobleman Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger (after 2005's The Princess and the Pirates
)....
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-37088-6
The brisk 11th Decius Metellus Roman historical (after 2006's SPQR X: A Point of Law
) finds tensions increasing between Julius Caesar and Pompey. Series hero Decius has been elected praetor peregrinus
, traveling magistrate in charge of all...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-312-38093-9
Civil war looms between the forces of Julius Caesar and Pompey, providing an ominous background for Roberts's compelling 12th Roman historical to feature Decius Caecilius Metellus (after 2007's SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius
). Recently raised to
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John Maddox Roberts, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-59507-4
Time is running out for Julius Caesar, whose assassination is little more than a year away, in Roberts's fine 13th whodunit to feature Sen. Decius Metellus as sleuth (after 2008's SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead
). As 46 B.C. draws to an end,
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John Maddox Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-312-20582-9
Sporting an anachronistic, decidedly modern-day sensibility, the Roman senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger returns to his native Rome from Rhodes at a time when Julius Caesar is beginning his rise to power. Worldly and a bit of a playboy,...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author Avon Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-75993-4
This literate mystery introduces the newest in an ever-expanding genre of quirky dicks: Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, a high-born bad boy, but patriotic head of a civil detective force in ancient Rome. How is the strangulation of a freed...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author Avon Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-75995-8
Roberts ( SPQR ) again proves that he's perfectly at home in the urban sprawl of ancient Rome as his sleuth Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger follows a trail of suspicious deaths to the heart of a dangerous conspiracy. When a banker and a...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-11359-9
Maddox matches his justly acclaimed detective series set in ancient Rome (SPQR) with this tightly constructed, elegantly simple mystery about a prodigal son who falls into old troubles with new people when he tries to go home again. Narrator Gabe...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-17176-6
From the outset, this third in a series (after The Ghosts of Saigon, 1996) is crippled by multiple implausibilities and murky plotting. Knoxville, Tenn., PI Gabe Treloar starts his search for Sybil, missing daughter of his boss, Randall Carson, in...
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John Maddox Roberts, Author, Eric Kotani, Author Forge $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-87298-4
In the near future, an old-fashioned space race begins. Earth's energy crisis is coming to a head, and conventional alternative energies are falling short. There is increasing interest in the idea of high-orbit solar satellites that would collect...
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