LOL - well, perhaps better late than never (other posts on Doherty's Alexander mysteries are two years ago!) I finally stumbled onto Doherty's books on "Alexander mysteries" at the library, having been reading so many books about the fall of Rome I desperately needed a fun break. I picked up the first one with some misgivings (I personally find that 90% of all the 'historical' murder mysteries I've read are written by people who have read one 3-page synopsis of a period's history, then just write modern thrillers).

So far, I'm rather intrigued, not so much by the mystery as by the ambivalent nature of Alexander, as portrayed . . . both good and bad, ruthless and generous, a bit crazy and very sane.

Kallistos, anyone - have you read them all? What impressions? (for someone who admits that her habits of reading mysteries is a necessary corrective to straight histery, and doesn't take it too seriously ;)