This is a linked together collection of short stories about our hero, who will become a private investigator, a finder, in ancient Rome. In this volume, though, he's a young man and he's still learning the ways of the world as he joins his tutor on a tour of the Seven Wonders. Some of the stories...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Steven Saylor is known for his (at this writing) 11-book historical mystery series called, Roma Sub Rosa, in which Gordianus the Finder investigates historical cases in a well-researched Republican Rome context. I'd been grinding through Colleen McCullough's 8-tome rambling Masters of Rome series...
