Best Roman fiction authors

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John Maddox Roberts has authored five Roman detective books set in late Republican times. His hero, unlike Lindsey Davis' Falco, is a noble plebian family member, Decius. While you can currently buy the last three books in the series, the first two have been very hard to find at any price, though I see that they are going to be reprinted this fall. JMR is also publishing one of the series in German (! ..must be really popular there! ) and a sixth one in English later this year.<br>
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Steven Saylor has stuck his hero in the same time period, but so far they haven't tripped over each other.<br>
Someone once mentioned that Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower should certainly have known each other, and probably served on the same ships, since they were such immense heros in Britain, but no on coordinated their authors. Too bad...leave it to Hollywood to do that. <p></p><i></i>