Pliny the Younger Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| All Roads Lead to Murder | 2002 | Buy |
| The Blood of Caesar | 2008 | Buy |
| The Corpus Conundrum | 2011 | Buy |
| Death in the Ashes | 2013 | Buy |
| The Eyes of Aurora | 2014 | Buy |
| Fortune’s Fool | 2017 | Buy |
| The Gods Help Those | 2018 | Buy |
| Hiding from the Past | 2020 | Buy |
The Pliny the Younger mysteries are a series of historical whodunits set in ancient Rome. Written under the pen name Notebooks of Pliny the Younger, these novels reimagine the real historical figure Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus — known to history for his letters and his eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — as an amateur detective solving murders during the reign of Emperor Domitian.
Eight novels published between 2002 and 2020 make up the Pliny the Younger series. Each book drops Pliny into a new case, aided by his friend the historian Tacitus and complicated by his relationship with Aurora, a slave in his household. The books draw on deep knowledge of Roman history to create mysteries that feel both authentic to their period and satisfying as crime fiction.