Mysteries set in ancient Rome: The concept seems a little freaky, maybe too nerdy to be entirely tasteful and legit, but those who pass over Saylor's Roman books are missing out on one of the best mystery series being published today. Hopefully Saylor's successful leap into the 19th century prompted his readers to join him in ancient Rome, where the great majority of his mysteries are set. It was the first time that some mystery readers had come across Saylor because the name "Saylor" usually appears on book jackets above titles like Roman Blood and A Murder on the Appian Way. Henry into the mix (a mix of bloody axes and Guy Town whores, for starters). Henry, which took Austin's Servant Girl Annihilator murders of the 1880s and re-imagined them in a historically accurate but particularly ingenious fashion while throwing the young Texas dandy O. Two years ago, Simon & Schuster published Steven Saylor's mystery A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Steven Saylor will be at BookPeople on Thursday, May 30, at 7pm.
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