Fiction

I've read Falco, but not that one. Looking around, it seems to have been written before Falco and just republished after she gained a following.

Right now I'm reading and enjoying Simon Scarrow's "Eagle" series. In the middle of the second one. It's kind of fun for Falco readers, because the characters are part of Vespasian's Legion. I keep comparing this, younger, Vespasian during the Claudian invasion of Britain, and the older emperor. Claudius just entered the narrative too, and I suspect it's going to be hard to not compare him to Robert Graves's version from "I, Claudius".

I agree with the recommendation for Stephen Saylor. I've read two--"Roman Blood" and "Murder on the Appian Way" and a number of the Gordianus short stories--and enjoyed them. They take place toward the end of the republic. The rest of the series is on my "for real, for sure, some day" list.