Author: John Maddox Roberts
Series: SPQR Series #1
Narrator: John Lee
Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/21/2017
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction
John Maddox Roberts is the author of numerous works of science fiction and fantasy, in addition to his successful historical SPQR mystery series. He lives in Estancia, New Mexico, with his wife.
John Lee has read more than 100 audiobooks. His work has garnered multiple Earphones Awards and won AudioFile's Best Voice in Fiction & Classics in both 2008 and 2009. Lee narrated the audiobook for A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, volume four of A Song of Ice and Fire. He has also read for Jack London, John Banville, Charles Dickens, and Barbara Taylor Bradford. In addition, Lee narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has written and co-produced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.
(A revision of an earlier review) A great novel rich in historical detail about Rome, especially the complexities of politics and how people rose to power. We also learn a lot about daily life in Rome: meals, customs, slavery. We also learn a lot about crime and street thugs in ancient Rome. Many peop......more
I read this book while taking a break from Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series. Because I only had two Roma Sub Rosa books left to read, I was scouting for another series set in Ancient Rome (can't get enough of this genre). I saw Roberts' SPQR while surfing the Net, bought the first book in the se......more
A 3.5 star mystery but an absolute, unequivocal 5 stars for the rich and vibrant setting of Rome. Really incredible cultural, societal, and historical info in here. If you're interested at all in Roman life, that alone is worth the price.......more
I’ve been disappointed with several of the Roman mysteries on offer and found myself looking back fondly on the old SPQR and Falcoseries. I remembered these books as standouts and was curious how tainted my memory was by nostalgia. I’ve learned a lot about the ancient world since reading these books......more
First book in the SQPR series. Decius is just starting out in his first public office, as sort of a low level fire chief/peacekeeper, when not only is somebody murdered, but a building is set on fire. Decius starts to investigate, and the clues take him into ever higher social circles. Things keep he......more
“Wonderful...All the wild, imaginative stimulation of the best detective fiction.” Marion Zimmer Bradley, New York Times bestselling author
“Decius serves up drolleries aplenty about historical events and characters.” Publishers Weekly