Albert A. Bell Jr. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-56474-587-3
Bell’s subpar sixth mystery featuring ancient Roman magistrate Pliny the Younger (after 2014’s The Eyes of Aurora) focuses on Pliny’s complex personal life. Pliny, who was once engaged to Livilla, has married her older sister, Livia, whose first...
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Albert A. Bell Jr. Claystone, $16.95 ISBN 978-1-5453-2023-5
Lawrenceville, S.C., writer Maureen Cooper, the emotionally intelligent and well-rounded narrator of this series launch from Bell (The Gods Help Those and six other mysteries set in Ancient Rome), is grappling with mixed emotions after the...
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Albert A. Bell Jr. Perseverance (SCB, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-56474-532-3
Set in Rome in A.D. 84, Bell’s solid fourth mystery featuring Pliny the Younger (after 2011’s The Corpus Conundrum) finds the 23-year-old lawyer torn between his love for a slave woman and pleasing his mother, who has just arranged an advantageous...
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