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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Imperial Rome's private investigator Marcus Didius Falco takes on a case involving the murder of a wealthy real estate developer.
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c1992
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Falco is on an undercover mission to Roman Germany when he encounters natives wanting revenge for old grudges. Will he prevail?
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Marcus Didius Falco volume 5
Pub. Date
[c1994]
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"A Marcus Didius Falco mystery." Imperial Roman spy Falco has three days to clear his family name and prove he is not a murderer.
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Private investigator and royal informer Marcus Didius Falco is hot on the trail of organized crime in 72 A.D. Rome. Assisted by his girlfriend Helena Justina and his best friend, watch captain L. Petronius Longus, Falco tries to complete this imperial commission without being killed. Meanwhile he's hampered with a stray dog, an abandoned baby, a missing niece, and an irritating landlord.
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2000.
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"Rome's top shamus Marcus Didius Falco finds himself in a foul situation when he's appointed Procurer of Sacred Poultry. Morosely baby-sitting geese and stewing about his future, he's about to make a classic mistake: He doesn't take his newest client seriously." "The girl, a perfect doll, had waited for him on his doorstep, tapping a tiny foot in a golden sandal, her loyal retainers hanging about within earshot. Her voice was petulant when she told...
8) The accusers
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco becomes caught up in the trial of a senator, a case that becomes complicated by the senator's convenient "suicide" and draws Falco into a confrontation with powerful forces in the Roman legal system.
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[2004]
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When the scribe of ancient Rome's daily scandal column goes missing in seaside Ostia, investigator Marcus Didius Falco learns that the scribe was working on a story about an underworld kidnapping racket involving pirates.
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Pub. Date
c2006
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When she is hired to mystery-shop in the chichi Soft Shoe store to expose a salesman with a penchant for ladies' insoles, undercover retail spy Josie Marcus, after a series of strange events, finds herself trapped in a world of gambling, blackmail, and desperate housewives in stilettos.
11) Alexandria
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Vacationing from his work as a private intelligence gatherer for the emperor Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco journeys with his wife to Alexandria, where he is challenged to solve the murder of a librarian whose killers are nefarious book thieves.
12) Nemesis
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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The much awaited latest installment in this New York Times bestselling series brings Marcus Didius Falco back to the city of Rome and its deadly, convoluted intrigues In the high summer of A.D. 77, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone else's misfortunes. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father, Geminus,...
13) Fixing to die
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"Mystery shopper Josie Marcus has been happily married to veterinarian Ted Scottsmeyer for months. But her newly wedded bliss is about to be cut short...."
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As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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Josie has been asked to investigate Uncle Bob's Doggy Day Camp, known for its commercials featuring Uncle Bob liking dogs so much that he acts like one. But Josie soon learns how Uncle Bob acts when the cameras are off. Her mother's new tenant, Franklin, who works for Uncle Bob, plans to quit after seeing the man's true nature. But before he gets the chance, Bob is murdered, and Franklin goes from the doghouse to the big house. Now it's up to Josie...
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Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The thirteenth novel featuring sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that's sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco's own household, specifically the bathhouse-where a body turns up. Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache: building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor....
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Earl Marcus novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive.
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The Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Ancient Rome's organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco.In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, Falco is forced to admit his real reason for being there....
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Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Description
"With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service...
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Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...