when you tie symbolic punishment and the law together you have to watch out. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.“The detail is meticulous.” - Archaeology Magazine Within its compelling story, one tours Roman life from bottom to top in what is both good history and good mystery…A novelist whose future work will be worth reading.” - Austin Chronicle “Saylor’s evocation of ancient Rome is vivid and realistic. “Gripping…A combination of Hitchcock-style suspense and vivid historical details.” “A modern master of historical fiction.” - USA Today “From the arrival of an articulate slave on the doorstep of sleuth Gordianus to the riveting re-creation of an actual oration by Cicero, Saylor’s remarkable first novel takes the reader deep into the political, legal and family arenas of ancient Rome, providing a stirring blend of history and mystery, well seasoned with conspiracy, passion and intrigue…a story greatly enhanced by its vivid characters…A classic historical mystery, in every sense.” - Publishers Weekly “Saylor evokes the ancient world more convincingly than any other writer of his generation.” - Sunday Times, London “Saylor has acquired the information of a historian but he enjoys the gifts of a born novelist.” - Boston Globe “Steven Saylor’s engrossing series of popular novels centered around Gordianus the Finder-a kind of Roman Sherlock Holmes.”
“Saylor puts such great detail and tumultuous life into his scenes that the sensation of rubbing elbows with the ancients is quite uncanny.” - New York Times Book Review Dreary weather and an excellent book - life is good. I have enjoyed this book (an author presented at a Mystery Book talk) greatly and hope to read more from this author. "I moved from Medieval England to pre-Caesarian Rome and there is a correlation. Playing for stakes much higher than he bargained for, Gordianus finds that not only is he himself endangered, but so are all those around him. As he draws nearer to the truth, the conspiracy looms ever larger until Gordianus begins to perceive the hand of the dictator Sulla himself. Hired by Cicero to investigate the charges, Gordianus sets out to discover the truth in a case-and a society-rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy.
His client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the most unforgivable act in Ancient Rome: the murder of his father. Ambitious and brilliant, the twenty-six-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. In Rome, 80 BC, on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero.
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