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Roman Senator Pliny the Younger investigates a locked-room murder in the first in a gripping series set in Ancient Rome's most decadent age.

Praise for Roman Games... "A fantastic weave of fact with fiction in a brutally described Rome, rigid with hierarchy and fear...an excellent series." -Robert Fabbri, author of Vespasian: Rome's Executioner When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, suspicion falls on his household slaves-a potential death sentence for all. The cruel emperor, Domitian, orders Gaius Pli...

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The 2nd book in the "Roman Games" series, this features Roman governor Pliny the Younger, who is confronted with the murder of a high Roman official.

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The first in a new crime series set in ancient Rome. Roman Senator Pliny the Younger investigates a locked room murder in Rome's most decadent age. '"Roman Games" is brilliant.' Robert Fabbri

A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome, a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets, a boy who struggles toward manhood: these are the elements in Pliny's latest investigation.Newly appointed governor of Roman province Bithynia, Pliny finds a high Roman official murdered on a desolate hillside, miles from the capital. ...

Praise for The Bull Slayer..."Brilliant....An excellent series. And I look forward to more." -Robert Fabbri, author of Vespasian, Tribune of RomeA turbulent frontier province, seething with corruption and hatred of Rome, a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows everyone's secrets, a boy who struggles toward manhood: these are the elements in Pliny's latest investigation. Newly appo...

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An old grudge erupts into violence as Odd Tangle-Hair refuses to back down from the men he believes shamed his father and betrayed their heritage by turning away from the old gods in favor of the White Christ. But when the violence escalates and Odd's family bears the brunt of it, he must leave his beloved Iceland behind and find his own way in the world. The golden age of Viking conquest is fading when he takes to the seas with his rag-tag cr...

In this second volume of his saga, Odd Tangle-Hair travels to Russia to take up his post as skald to Harald, the young renegade prince of Norway. Intrigue and danger await him when Odd finds himself 'caught between two wolves'-the arrogant, bullying Harald and his sworn enemy, Ingigerd, Grand Princess of Novgorod, who schemes against Harald by seducing Odd. While political intrigue swirls around him, a Pecheneg horde explodes across the steppe...

The Varangian is the final entry in Bruce Macbain's Odd Tangle-Hair Saga and brings Odd's challenging adventures to a climactic and satisfying finish. On a secret diplomatic mission to the Emperor's court in Miklagard, the Viking's name for Constantinople, Odd meets the members of the fearsome Varangian Guard whose elite Viking members served as the Emperor's personal bodyguards. Harald, his former master and the man he's been sent to murder, ...

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Rome: September, 96 AD. When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, suspicion falls on his household slaves-a potential death sentence for all.The emperor Domitian orders Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus-known to history as Pliny the Younger-to investigate. Pliny teams up with Martial, a starving author of bawdy verses. Pooling their talents, they unravel a plot that i...