SPQR Books in Order

When two seemingly unimportant murders are ignored by everyone else, Decius keeps digging. What he finds is a thick knot of corruption, blackmail, and political danger in the heart of the Roman Republic.

Rome is celebrating military success abroad while fear and bloodshed spread at home. Convinced a conspiracy is forming, Decius goes inside the plot and risks his life to stop the Republic from being torn apart.

A scandal at a sacred women's rite leads Decius into a case of disguise, class tension, and murder. To solve it, he has to work with a notorious criminal and follow the trail from Rome's gutters to its highest circles.

A trip to Alexandria should let Decius escape Rome for a while. Instead he finds philosophers, cultists, a dead courtesan, and a conspiracy with consequences larger than any ordinary provincial murder.

Rome's wildest festival is in full swing when Decius is called home from exile to investigate a politically dangerous poisoning. The case leads him into family pressure, secret cults, and a city where rules have temporarily vanished.

Sent to Caesar's army in Gaul, Decius is ordered to solve the murder of a despised centurion. With the wrong suspect already marked for death, he has very little time to find the real killer.

A tribune publicly curses Crassus on the day the army marches east, then is murdered soon after. Decius has to investigate in a Rome where politics, fear, and belief in old magic all point in different directions.

As aedile, Decius is supposed to stage games and keep the city running. A deadly tenement collapse puts him on the trail of greed and sabotage, and the deeper he digs, the closer the case gets to Rome's most powerful men.

Sent to help suppress piracy, Decius heads to Cyprus and meets a young Cleopatra. When the island's ruler is murdered, trade, politics, and sea power tangle into a case far more dangerous than a simple anti-pirate patrol.

Decius expects his rise to higher office to be routine until a stranger publicly accuses him of corruption. When the accuser turns up dead on the courthouse steps, Decius has to clear his name in a murder case designed to ruin him.

Serving as praetor in Campania should be pleasant work for Decius and Julia. Then a priest's daughter is murdered near Vesuvius, a boy faces mob justice, and Decius has to cut through panic before the wrong person dies.

While visiting a famous southern Italian oracle, Decius stumbles into a feud between rival priesthoods. When the priests are slaughtered, old ethnic grudges and new ambitions threaten to turn one murder case into open violence.

Caesar's calendar reform brings foreign astronomers to Rome, and then the killings start. Decius must protect the project, untangle fraud and superstition, and find a murderer before politics turns deadly.