In The Deadliest Sport, Binyamin tells us how he became a gladiator: “I left Alexandria for Capua ten years ago, when I was sixteen, full...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam’s father expresses his hope that Binyamin become a scholar, certainly not an outcast to be destroyed for...

Now and then I contribute to BookDaily.com a blog on writing. This one, published recently, is about watching soap operas to become a...

In The Deadliest Sport, Miriam tells us she cuts up the cakes of animal dung drying in the courtyard to fuel her distillation apparatus....

Since last week’s blog, I’ve gotten at least a dozen inquiries about that dead body found in a locked room at The Pegasus and how that...

The Deadliest Sport opens with Binyamin’s return to Alexandria to fight his last bout after ten years in gladiatorial arenas all over the...

In The Deadliest Lie, we learn about Miriam’s tutor, Hector, and why her father purchased a tutor for her. Aunt Hannah explains: When...

Okay, okay. I get other questions too. Lucy asked, “Why did you feel you had to write a mystery about her?” “You mean why did I have to...

I began imagining Miriam bat Isaac when in 1987 I encountered Maria Hebrea. I was taking a course on the historical development of...

When I make presentations to organizations and book clubs, I am often asked these two questions: How did you come to create Miriam bat...