‘We talked a little about Aelius Sejanus the last time we met. The fact that you are reading this shows that the time for talk is past. The man is a malignant growth, a danger to Rome, and he must be removed. No; I dislike euphemisms. Sejanus must be killed.’ Back home temporarily for his father’s funeral, Corvinus finds that he has been left a commission by the dead Empress Livia. The only drawback is that Sejanus is the Emperor Tiberius’s trusted deputy, and the most powerful man in Rome.... The third book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Sejanus (Marcus Corvinus)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wishart, Mr David

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

‘Him and his fancy fish-farm, raking it in hand over fist. He’s a bastard. A greedy bastard. Some people, they’d be better off dead, know what I mean?’Baiae, jewel of the Campanian coast and favourite playground of Rome’s great and not-so-good. Gaius Trebbio, the town drunk, has every reason to hate his erstwhile landlord Licinius Murena, and when the man (or what’s left of him) is found dead in one of his own conger-eel tanks Trebbio is the prime suspect. Not the only one, though: there’s also Murena’s widow, half his age with a penchant for young doctors, plus his daughter and put-upon farm manager. And that’s only the start...The tenth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Food for the Fishes (Marcus Corvinus)

Nero

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

He is poisoning me. I saw it in his eyes before we sailed, despite the smile on his lips: 'It's only a fever, Virgil. And you deserve it for traipsing off to Greece without telling me. What made you think the poem needed three years' editing, you beetroot?' It is as artificial as it sounds, this bluff heartiness and rustic eccentricity of language. Like so many of his amiable qualities it serves a very practical purpose. Octavian is nothing if not a pragmatist. Literally nothing. Strip the layers from an onion. The bit that is left, that is Octavian. I, Virgil, the ‘autobiography’ of Rome’s greatest poet, traces the fall of the Republic and the rise of the first emperor, Augustus Caesar. Warts and all.

I, Virgil

When a delegation from the High King of Parthia arrives in Rome, and a member-in-exile of the Parthian royal family is attacked by knifemen, Corvinus finds himself caught up in the murky world of backstairs diplomacy, espionage, and general political skulduggery. Particularly when the delegation's leader is found dead in bed with his throat cut...The ninth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Parthian Shot (Marcus Corvinus)

I sat down on one of the couches. ‘So, Stepfather,’ I said, ‘Who did you kill?’ ‘He didn’t kill anyone!’ Mother snapped. ‘Don’t be silly!’ I sighed. ‘Okay. So who didn’t you kill?’ Back briefly to Italy from his self-imposed exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus is not a happy bunny; particularly since he and his wife Perilla are sharing their holiday with Corvinus’s mother and antiquities- obsessed stepfather Helvius Priscus. Then, when Priscus is caught standing over the corpse of one of the local landowners with the murder weapon in his hand, life suddenly becomes much more interesting... The fifth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Old Bones (Marcus Corvinus)

‘Uh...Dad?’ Young Lucius’s face was chalk white. ‘Dad, I think he’s dead.’ It took a moment to register. Then Renatius dropped the towel and was through the door in five seconds flat, and the rest of the wineshop, including me, were about two seconds behind him. When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway beside Renatius’s wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. The local District Watch – crooked to a man – claim that the killer’s motive was simple theft, but Corvinus knows it wasn’t. Tracking the murderer down, with the often-unwilling help of his wife Perilla, takes him deep into the murky world of Roman chariot-racing with all its secrets, skulduggeries and scams; and his task is not made any easier by the fact that in the process he has a lovesick major-domo, an invisible dagger and Mount Etna to contend with. The seventh book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

White Murder (Marcus Corcinus)

‘When you read this, Corvinus, both I and my wife Ennia will be dead, on the emperor’s orders. What excuse he’ll offer publicly or in private I don’t know, but whatever it is it will be the product of misinformation and calumny.’When Marcus Corvinus is given a letter from Sertorius Macro, the Emperor Gaius’s erstwhile adviser forced into suicide for plotting against him, asking him to clear the dead man’s name, he isn’t keen on the job at all: rifling through the political dirty laundry basket is currently just too damn dangerous. However, when the inconsistencies begin to mount up he is firmly hooked.The thirteenth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Bodies Politic (Marcus Corvinus)

When the solid gold statue of a female baker gifted to the oracle at Delphi by King Croesus of Lydia and missing for over three centuries unexpectedly reappears on the Athenian black market, Corvinus's stepfather Helvius Priscus recruits him as go-between in the purchase. Priscus, though, it turns out, isn't the only interested party, and where bidding methods are concerned his rivals don't play games...The fourth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

The Lydian Baker (Marcus Corvinus)

‘Right,’ I said. ‘So what can I do for the Chief Vestal, pal?’ The Axeman was flexing his hands like he was squeezing a couple of these wooden balls wrestlers use to strengthen their grip. ‘I’m to take you to the Galba place,’ he said. ‘There’s been a death.’ ‘Fine,’ I said. ‘You care to tell me whose?’ ‘One of the Ladies.’ Shit. I sat back. One of the Ladies, eh? For Torquata’s Axeman that could mean only one thing. The dead woman was a Vestal. Asked to investigate the death of a young woman during the closed-door rites of the Good Goddess, Corvinus knows he is on very sensitive ground. Particularly if it isn’t murder. The sixth book in the Marcus Corvinus series.

Last Rites (Marcus Corvinus)

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