Jon Smith

Murder’s never in season. Especially in Rome. When a senator’s son is found dead at a prestigious Imperial fashion symposium—impaled on a decorative gladius while modelling ceremonial undergarments—the Empire erupts in scandal. To keep the affair quiet, the investigation is handed to a...

One broken Republic. One impossible choice. One bargain no honest politician should ever accept.Lucilla Minor has never wanted power. She prefers laws to speeches, ledgers to glory, and believes Rome's problems can usually be solved by competent administration.Then someone offers her the chance...

Une mort annoncée. Une vérité reléguée en note de bas de page. Une bureaucratie en pleine panique. Decimus Flaccus n’était qu’un simple scribe. Discret, consciencieux et presque parfaitement oubliable… jusqu’au jour où il surprend par hasard un complot visant à assassiner Jules César.

They were sent to die. Unfortunately for Rome, they didn’t. When a ragtag legion of Rome’s least inspiring soldiers is dispatched to a remote border post no one’s ever heard of, even they assume they’re being quietly exiled. But between a commander who thinks maps are propaganda, a scout...

Jede Prophezeiung braucht einen Schurken. Diese hier hat einen sarkastischen Vampir mit schlechter Laune erwischt. Vincent Lupo ist ein abgeklärter, weinseliger Unsterblicher, der eigentlich nur seinen neuesten Schmuddelroman fertigschreiben und den Leuten aus dem Weg gehen will, die er im...

Emma pensó que acabar con su vida pondría fin a todos sus problemas. Mark pensó que confesar sus sentimientos podría salvarla. En lugar de eso, ambos acaban en un lugar peor de lo que jamás imaginaron: atrapados en el limbo como asistentes de la Muerte, el Primer Jinete del Apocalipsis.

A death foretold. A truth footnoted. A bureaucracy panicking. Decimus Flaccus was just a scribe. Quiet, diligent, and very nearly forgettable—until he accidentally overheard a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. Now he’s juggling misplaced prophecies, bribable omens, one extremely combustible...

Vincent Lupo is a jaded, wine-soaked immortal just trying to finish writing his latest smutty novel and avoid the people he’s wronged—magical or otherwise.

When a malevolent figure from Khmer folklore awakens, Sothea and Gabe must navigate friendship, family and the monster within to overcome a terrifying supernatural force and protect the society that shunned them. Gabe, a seventeen-year-old labourer, becomes besotted by the enigmatic Sothea after...

Der international veröffentlichte Bestsellerautor Jon Smith gibt mit Der Fünfte Reiter sein Erwachsenen-Debüt – eine moderne Fantasykomödie, die überlieferte Mythologie und die Regeln von Leben … und Tod mit Füßen tritt. Der Fünfte Reiter ist eine düster-komische Geschichte über...

The Fifth Horseman is a darkly comic tale of two thirty-somethings caught between our world and the afterlife, who must embrace their role as reapers to prevent the End Times. Death is just a day job you can’t quit…Emma and Mark had a bad day. The worst part of it was dying. But, according...