History Mystery

Steven Saylor has the ninth instalment of his Roma Sub Rosa mystery series entitled A Mist of Prophecies.Here is an excerpt of a book review from About.com

The place is Rome, the time the year 48 BCE. Caesar has crossed the Adriatic Sea to confront Pompey. Gordianus' son Meto is still in Caesar's entourage, and still disowned by Gordianus. Back home, his wife Bethesda is stricken with a mysterious debilitating illness, and Gordianus is officially retired. He calls the times “impious days, when men scorn the gods and the gods scorn us in return.” Thus he sets the scene for another dark novel, albeit not as bleak as his most recent one, Last Seen in Massilia, I'm glad to report.

Saylor's Gordianus' books are well-written and he does give factual attention to the historical mysteries of Ciceronian - and soon to be Caeserian - Rome.