Roman Games

The debut novel by Bruce Macbain is now available

Rome: September, 96 AD. When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, suspicion falls on his household slaves—a potential death sentence for them all.

The despotic emperor, Domitian, orders Gaius Plinius Secundus—known to history as Pliny the Younger—to investigate. If Pliny can't identify the murderer in fifteen days, Verpa's entire slave household will be burned alive in the arena...