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It is 539 A.D.

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes.

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be.

Who killed the mosaic girl?

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

Why are sheep in a remote Egyptian village cutting their own throats?

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital...

In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him.

Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on a

Calgary was a boomtown of 50,000 people in 1912, the year the Lougheed Building and the adjacent Grand Theatre were built.

After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter.