Steven Saylor - A Murder on the Appian Way: Library Edition

Pros: Well plotted and interesting
Cons: Like I need another must read author.

I`ve been meaning to get around to Steven Saylor`s Roma Sub Rosa mysteries for a long time. I´m a total sucker for historical mysteries and have read my way through the Brother Cafael and the Sister Freivisse series. I`m also devouring the Molly Murphy ...

Pros: Intrigue, passion, historical accuracy, good mystery
Cons: Really need to read his other books first

Steven Saylor is on my list of authors to purchase whenever he publishes a new novel. My husband and I first discovered him through the short stories he published in Ellery Queen and hurried to buy his first novel, Roman Blood when it was...

Pros: True characters, real mystery, well told
Cons: none, unless your not into mysteries, history or Rome, then I can't help you!

I had intended on reviewing this book anyway, but like a good Epinionite, I do try to read what others are thinking, and to try to avoid covering the same ground.

When I came across mshawpyle's review of the book, I felt I needed to be...

Pros: Barely recommended; Well-written, with solid background, first rate characterization, and thorough plotting, marred by political obsessions
Cons: Obtrusively politicized

Steven Saylor could have been a Classical scholar of Finleyian caliber. He has at least made a respectable showing as a crime novelist. One has merely to overlook his political obsessions and resolve not to let them ruin the story.

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Pros: historically-accurate gripping suspense surprise verisimilitude humanity generosity relevance
Cons: definitely read more than once, and linger

In Saylor’s exciting culmination of his "Roma Sub Rosa" series, Gordianus "the Finder" is commissioned by Pompey the Great himself to plumb the murky depths of the murder of Publius Clodius, whose body was found on the Appian Way, the...