Read Series: Roma Sub Rosa
by Author Steven Saylor
The Venus Throw (1999)
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., two strange visitors to Rome—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. ...
A Murder on the Appian Way (1998)
Fifth in the Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series set in ancient Rome and revolving around Gordianus the Finder, senior.My TakeI definitely should not have read John Maddox Roberts' King's Gambit, I when I started this series. It's got me all confused with the different Milos! I kept expecti...
Roman Blood (2000)
Roman Blood (book one of the Roma Sub Rosa series) by Steven Saylor centers around the real life patricide trial of a country farmer by the name of Sextus Roscius. The advocate of Sextus Roscius, the well known Marcus Tullius Cicero, employs the help of a man named Gordianus to dig up information...
A Mist of Prophecies (2003)
Eighth * in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Roman historical mystery series and revolving around Gordianus the Finder and his family in the Rome of 48BC. If you're interested, there is a chronological listing of the Roma Sub Rosa (and the Ancient World prequel) books on my website.Chronologically, it's...
Last Seen in Massilia (2015)
Seventh in the Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series and revolving around Gordianus the Finder and his family in the Rome of 49 BC.Chronologically, it's MY seventh and Saylor's eighth because the technical sixth, The House of the Vestals, is a collection of short stories that I've slotted in ...
Catilina's Riddle (2002)
Third in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Rome historical mystery series revolving around Gordianus the Finder. It's seventeen years since Roman Blood, 1.My TakeI have to confess this one was tedious, and I kept putting it down. Although, I did love the sound of his farm and the baths...and Gordianus'...
The Judgment of Caesar (2005)
I read some of the early books in this series involving the one called "The Finder," but at the time most of the books were published and sold in England and it involved too much to try to get them....so the series went by the wayside. I like what he does in his portrayals. He builds his charac...
A Gladiator Dies Only Once (2006)
Nine stories of Gordianus the Finder’s early career, showing the relationships and decisions that shaped him into the well-connected and -respected figure he is in the later novels. In “The Consul’s Wife,” consul Decimus Brutus, hires Gordianus to ascertain whether his wife is placing coded mess...
Arms of Nemesis (2001)
Second in the Roma Sub Rosa history mystery series set in Ancient Rome at a time when Spartacus is raging through the countryside, terrifying the populace and revolving around Gordianus, a Finder, who brings his son, Eco, along.My TakeIt's years after Roman Blood, 1, and much has changed in Gor...
Rubicon (2000)
My sixth in the Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series and revolving around Gordianus the Finder, a private detective. The story is set in ancient Rome in January of the Year of Rome 705 (49 B.C. to us).Chronologically, it's MY sixth and Saylor's seventh because the technical sixth, The House ...