Rome Fiction

What would you think if, in your old age, the doctors tell you that you only have a couple years left to live, and even ultra-modern medical technology is powerless to help? Some may spend their remaining years at the bottom of a bottle, others may choose to spend it quietly, with family...But there are also those who are ready to leave everything behind. Volper is one of those who has decided to have one last hurrah and immerse himself in a virtual reality.

Things are looking up for Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni - their humiliating exile in Venice is nearly at an end, and their long-awaited holiday is about to begin...

In the late August of AD 79, the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum are going about their normal business in the late summer heat. Two of them have a room share arrangement: Nonius, scrounger, thief and failed pimp works by night and sleeps by day; Larius, the fresco painter with dreams of artistic greatness, does the opposite. When just after midday the summit of Vesuvius disappears in a vast volcanic ash cloud, their lives will change forever.

Rom zur Kaiserzeit: Caligula sitzt auf dem Thron, doch im Volk brodelt es, und immer wieder kommt es zu politischen Unruhen. Als die Stadt von einer grausamen Mordserie erschüttert wird, beauftragt der Kaiser ein ungleiches Ermittlerduo, der Sache nachzugehen. Gerüchte werden laut, dass ein großes Tier in den Kanälen Roms sein Unwesen treibt, Menschen tötet und seine Opfer dabei bestialisch zurichtet. Doch die Ermittlungen führen auf eine unglaubliche Spur: Wurden die Morde nicht von einem gewöhnlichen Tier verübt, sondern von einem mächtigen Wesen aus der antiken römischen Mythologie?

The Rome Zoo - a place borne of fantasy and driven by a nation’s aspirations. It has witnessed - and reflected in its tarnished mirror - the great follies of the 20th century. Now, in an ongoing battle that has seen it survive world wars and epidemics, the zoo must once again reinvent itself and assert its relevance in the Eternal City.

When an old man is brutally murdered, his son asks Olivia Streete to help find the killer. As she digs deeper in to the old man’s life, she discovers connections to crimes stretching back twenty years and involving some of the most powerful men in Rome and the Vatican. She starts untangle a complex web of lies and deceit from the past, but the guilty are even more powerful now, and they set out to stop her uncovering the truth.

Mientras la ciudad fortificada de Bérgida se consume en llamas, Sekeios, mercenario autrigón al servicio de Roma, huye del campamento tras un grave incidente con el gobernador de la Tarraconense, Gayo Antistio Veto. Perdido en territorio enemigo, será apresado por guerreros concanos, que lo conducirán a Aracillum, bastión de la resistencia cántabra. El gobernador ha jurado darle caza. Sekeios está solo y, ante él, un viaje sin retorno lo conducirá a arrodillarse ante el temido caudillo Corocotta.

Rebirth (Book 1 of the Rome’s Revolution Saga) chronicles the adventures of Rei Bierak, a young man from the 21st century who wakes up 14 centuries from now only to discover everything he knows about the universe is wrong and that he is nothing but a despised relic from the long-dead past.

Rome, 51 BC: The centurion Lucius Oppius has left the battlefields of Gaul to venture to Rome. But he is about to discover the capital of the Empire can be every bit as dangerous as its provinces. Under orders from Caesar to secure an item of intelligence that will help him become a Consul again, Oppius is manipulated into taking part in a gladiatorial contest. The soldier must not only fight his enemies in the arena however. Marcus Porcius Cato warns "Caesar’s Champion" that victory inside the arena will bring death outside of it.

When the Eternal City beckons, it's not just history that stirs; it's the secrets that yearn to be unraveled. Chaos ensues when a laid-off senior executive from the U.S. who has lived and worked for years in Italy, takes a temporary job chaperoning thirteen high school students and their three teachers from Atlanta in the Eternal City of Rome.

101 A.D. Emperor Trajan, the heralded new Caesar of the Roman Empire, seeks to reverse 15 years of humiliating losses for Rome in wars against Dacia and its brilliant military leader King Decebal. To punish Dacia and Decebal, Trajan launches an invasion of Dacia with the largest army ever assembled in the history of Rome.

85 A.D. The Roman Empire expanded its conquered territories north to the Danube River. One kingdom is still a serious threat – the third most powerful military power in Europe and the richest nation in the region. That nation is Dacia, led by its young and brilliant military leader King Decebal.

The year AD 105. King Decebal of Dacia stubbornly defends the freedom of his people and continues to defy the rule of the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan marches north again to invade Dacia with the largest army in the history of Rome. Their legendary personal and military conflicts reach a dramatic climax beneath the walls of Sarmizegetusa, the holy city of Dacia and the most formidable mountain fortress of the ancient world.

Book number two of the award winning Brooke & Abby cozy mystery series, where clues from the past help solve modern murder cases. Why does Abby tarot card her way back to Ancient Rome when there’s no need to? After all, the recent death in town has been declared by the local pathologist to be simply an accidental, epileptic tragedy and nothing more. Or is it?

From the foundation of the Roman Monarchy to the whispered end of the Western Roman Empire, here’s your chance to learn all the key events of the intricate dance of power, passion, and prophecy that shaped the rise, decline, and fall of Rome. The Wolves of Mars is your key to over 1,200 years of Roman social, political, economic, military, and intellectual history.

April Appleby only wants two things in life: to move on from her ex-fiancé, and, as a foodie living on the north side of Chicago, to figure out the secret ingredient of her late mother’s pasta sauce. Easier said than done considering her ex has just popped back into the picture, and she inherited zero cooking genes from her mom.

Immergrün leuchtet die Weihnacht. Schwarzwald, 1815: Anneliese ist gerade einmal 16, als ihr Vater tödlich verunglückt. Von da an verrichtet sie seine Arbeit als Holzfäller, doch ihre Familie ist hoch verschuldet. Als Anneliese sich an den heidnischen Brauch erinnert, Bäume in der Winterzeit festlich zu schmücken, hat sie eine Idee. Mit Äpfeln und Nüssen bestückt sie eine Tanne, die sie an ihrem Marktstand aufstellt. Annelieses Christbäume werden ein so großer Erfolg, dass sie selbst die Aufmerksamkeit des jungen Friedrich von Bergen auf sich zieht.

Hannibal Barca moved through the countryside burning, looting, and attracting recruits and supplies from disgruntled city residents and tribesmen. Cornelius Scipio remained with the forward Legions, taking any position available. It spoke well of his loyalty, but his actions hid a deeper secret. Cornelius feared the Scipio men would be accused of being cowards. Jace Kasia had no family but had a goal to be recognized as a Cretan archer. On the banks of Lake Trasimene, he earned the position of File Leader.

The winter cold is biting, and a series of assaults is pulling DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake out into the frosty, mean streets of London far more than they'd like. The attacks seem random, but when Marnie's family home is ransacked, there are signs that the burglary can have been committed only by a child - and someone who knows all about her. It will take a prison visit to her foster brother, Stephen, to help Marnie see the connections - and to force both her and Noah to face the truth about the creeping, chilling reaches of a troubled upbringing.

In the crippling heat of August in Rome, a flat goes up in flames, the doors sealed from the outside. Five illegal immigrants are trapped and burnt alive—their charred bodies barely distinguishable amidst the debris. When Detective Inspectors Rossi and Carrara begin to investigate, a terror organisation shakes the city to its foundations. Then a priest is found murdered and mutilated post-mortem—his injuries almost satanic in their ferocity.