Roma Sub Rosa - Titles

Titles

While the books were written in a different order, they are set in the order shown here:

1. The Seven Wonders (2012)—92 BC: Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Accompanying Gordianus on his travels is his tutor, Antipater of Sidon, the world’s most celebrated poet. But there is more to the apparently harmless old poet than meets the eye.
2. Roman Blood (1991)—80 BC: Gordianus accepts a commission from Cicero to investigate a murder while Rome is under the thumb of a brutal dictator. The client is Sextus Roscius, who was accused of parricide. The novel is derived from Cicero's Murder Trials and features Marcus Tullius Tiro among others.
3. The House of the Vestals (1997)—First collection of short stories. Includes Gordianus' journey to Alexandria' his purchase of beautiful, intelligent Bethesda as a slave/concubine and their acquisition of her sacred cat Bast. In one story, a Roman (barbarian) kills a sacred cat—a capital offense—and is pursued by a mob determined to expedite his execution.
4. A Gladiator Dies Only Once (2005)—Second collection of short stories: diverse, widespread
5. Arms of Nemesis (1992)—72 BC: Gordianus races against time to prevent the execution of ninety-nine slaves, to avenge the unsolved murder of their master, while Spartacus ravages the Italian countryside. Gordianus has to contend with Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, who is determined to prove that he is not "soft on slaves" in order to get the command of the army to be dispatched against Spartacus's rebels.
6. Catilina's Riddle (1993)—63 BC: Gordianus attempts to find out why headless bodies keep appearing on his newly-inherited farm and contend with hostile neighbors—all cousins of his benefactor—while he is entangled in republican conspiracy and counter-conspiracy. in Rome, Meto celebrates his toga party, on his sixteenth birthday.
7. The Venus Throw (1995)—56 BC: Gordianus is swept up in the decadence of Rome as he tries to discover who murdered an Egyptian diplomat.
8. A Murder on the Appian Way (1996)—52 BC: Gordianus investigates the death of Publius Clodius Pulcher as Rome sinks into chaos.
9. Rubicon (1999)—49 BC: Gordianus investigates how a body turned up in his garden as Rome lurches into civil war.
10. Last Seen in Massilia (2000)—49 BC: As Massilia is besieged by Caesar's army, Gordianus must find his way in and find out the truth about his son, Meto. Is he dead, a traitor, or a spy?
11. A Mist of Prophecies (2002)—48 BC: Gordianus searches for the killer of a seeress.
12. The Judgment of Caesar (2004)—48 BC: Gordianus travels to Egypt in an attempt to find a cure for his wife's illness, but gets wrapped up in a power struggle between Caesar and competing Egyptian factions.
13. The Triumph of Caesar (2008)—46 BC: Gordianus is begged by Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, to uncover a supposed conspiracy on her husband's life. Gordianus only accepts because she had initially hired a close friend of Gordianus and he had been murdered.