Author: davidwishart
When Marcus Corvinus is given a letter from Sertorius Macro, the Emperor Caligula’s erstwhile adviser forced into suicide for plotting against him, claiming that he was innocent and asking Corvinus to clear his name, he isn’t keen on the job at all; sticking your nose into the political dirty laundry basket is currently just too damned dangerous. However, when the inconsistencies begin to mount … mount up, Corvinus is firmly hooked.It’ll take him two near-death experiences, a lot of fancy footwork in avoiding the fatal attentions of Rome’s great and not so good, and some serious riot-dodging in Alexandria before…
Seemingly, when he committed suicide by falling from a tenement window, young Sextus Papinus had everything to live for. So did he jump after all, or was he pushed? And if the second, whodunnit, and why? Corvinus finds his investigations hampered by a spot of compulsory dog-minding, and the fact that the dog in question is a hound from Hell with a zero score in the social graces doesn’t help … matters at all…The eleventh book in the Marcus Corvinus series.more
‘It’s a funny thing about holidays in the country, but after only a few days away you feel as if you’ve been out of circulation for a month…’Holidaying out in the sticks in the Alban Hills, Marcus Corvinus is bored out of his skull until, conveniently, one of the candidates for the position of local censor is found murdered.So who killed Bolanus? Can Corvinus find the murderer before the Latin … before the Latin Festival raises the stakes? How do the Latin Nationalists fit into the picture? And last but not least, what exactly is his chef Meton up to…
‘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 … 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,…
Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor. June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus’s help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his summer-house at Lugdunum. Not especially happy at being despatched to Gaul, and even less enamoured of his … Gaul, and even less enamoured of his enforced travelling companion, the insufferable Domitius Crinas, Corvinus is increasingly frustrated as it becomes clear that the dead man’s extended family and friends are hiding something from…