David Wishart Books in Order

Wishart imagines Virgil telling his own life, from rural beginnings to the court of Augustus. It is part personal confession, part Roman history, and part conspiracy about the poet's death.

Asked to bring Ovid's ashes home to Rome, Corvinus starts pulling at a scandal the powerful want left buried. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Told through the eyes of Petronius, this novel imagines Nero as more than a stock monster. It follows the emperor's rise and unraveling in a court full of art, vanity, fear, and cruelty.

Empress Livia swears she did not kill Germanicus and orders Corvinus to find out who did. That sends him straight back into imperial secrets, old fears, and the aftershocks of a famous death.

Back in Rome after years away, Corvinus receives a letter from the dead empress Livia warning that Sejanus must be stopped. The case drags him into a dangerous web of power, memory, and revenge.

In Athens, Corvinus acts for his stepfather in the hunt for a vanished solid-gold statue tied to Delphi. The deal drops him into black-market intrigue, rival collectors, and murder.

In Roman Britain, young cavalry commander Marcus Julius Severinus is caught between the empire and the people among whom he was raised. As Boudicca's revolt gathers force, loyalty becomes as dangerous as battle.

Corvinus does not believe his stepfather is a killer, but Priscus is found standing over a corpse with the knife in his hand. A miserable holiday of tomb-bashing turns into a race to prove his innocence.

After the all-female rites of the Good Goddess, a young Vestal is found with her throat cut. Corvinus is brought in quietly to prevent scandal, but the truth lies inside a knot of deceit and danger.

When star charioteer Pegasus is found stabbed beside a wineshop, the easy answer is theft. Corvinus is not convinced, and the trail takes him deep into the scams, loyalties, and rivalries of Roman racing.

A country break ends fast when Corvinus is asked to investigate the murder of a candidate in the coming censor's election. What looks like straightforward political violence keeps twisting into something harder to pin down.

Corvinus hates politics, which is bad news when he is drawn into an attack on the Parthian prince Phraates. A murder inside the visiting delegation turns the case into a diplomatic mess with real danger for Perilla.

A rich fish-farm owner is found drowned in one of his own eel tanks, and not many mourn him. Corvinus follows the grudges through family, servants, and neighbours, while Perilla develops a distracting taste for gambling.

Asked to look into an apparent suicide, Corvinus soon doubts the obvious story. As he works through friends, relatives, and enemies, the case opens into something both personal and political.

A letter from Marilla sends Corvinus rushing to Castrimoenium, where a sick old man may have been poisoned. Everyone has an opinion, nobody agrees on murder, and the clues are buried in family tension.

A letter from the dead Sertorius Macro asks Corvinus to clear his name after a forced suicide. The trail leads into deadly imperial politics, near escapes, and unrest in Alexandria.

Robbie and Jacko Ogilvy, along with their cousin Kat Lindsay, are caught in a tense triangle that echoes a tragedy from a thousand years before. Myth, magic, and real danger start to blur together around them.

Ally Fraser is trapped by the same nightmare night after night, and an archaeological dig seems to offer answers. Instead, it pulls him toward a much older fire and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Eutacticus wants Corvinus to find his missing stepson, who supposedly ran off with an acting troupe. Then the boy's body turns up, and a simple favour becomes a murder case with far nastier edges.

During a holiday in the Alban Hills, Corvinus is asked to investigate the beating death of a respectable local politician found behind a brothel. Small-town gossip, feuds, and secrets make the case much dirtier than it first looks.

What looks like an accidental death, a rich man crushed by falling masonry, quickly turns sour. Corvinus finds himself inside a vicious family tangle, and worse, under the eye of the dangerously unpredictable Caligula.

At Claudius's request, Corvinus travels to Lugdunum to investigate the murder of a Gallic wine merchant. Far from home and surrounded by guarded locals, he has to solve a case nobody seems eager to explain.

A murdered man's sister asks Corvinus for help, then another corpse appears in the Pollio library gardens. Two cases that look separate begin to point toward something larger, darker, and much more connected.

When Bathyllus's long-lost brother turns up, Corvinus is pulled into a messy case involving a dead partner, old crimes, and dangerous politics. His mother's suspicion that Priscus is having an affair only adds to the chaos.

Claudius sends Corvinus to an estate near Carthage after an ex-praetor is found murdered. The case gets trickier when the dead man's family seem far more interested in their own grudges than in seeing justice done.

Instead of sorting single malts by region, Wishart groups them by flavour. The result is a practical guide with tasting notes, distillery profiles, and an easier way to compare whiskies without drowning in jargon.

This wide-ranging guide explains whisky's history, production, styles, and flavours, then tours distilleries and bottles from around the world. It is designed to make tasting and choosing whisky feel clearer and less intimidating.

Crime boss Eutacticus calls in a favour and sends Corvinus to Brundisium to investigate the murder of a fellow gangster. Working among the city's criminal elite, he has to find the killer without getting swallowed by the underworld himself.