Albert A Bell Jr Books in Order

Enslaved in ancient Rome, Lorcis carries an unrecognised clue to her origins. With help from another enslaved person and a sympathetic nobleman, her search takes her through the aftermath of Vesuvius, imperial power, and secret Christian gatherings.

Albert Bell examines the social, political, and cultural setting in which the New Testament emerged. This historical reference introduces readers to the ancient world behind the biblical writings, providing context for interpreting texts shaped by that environment.

This illustrated guide examines the world of Jesus and the earliest Christians through Jewish factions, Roman politics, social customs, and surrounding religions and philosophies. Scripture and subject indexes help readers connect that historical background with particular New Testament passages.

At an archaeological excavation in Italy, professor and licensed investigator Michael Herrington meets travel writer Corinna Foster. Her resemblance to a politician's murdered wife draws them into a dangerous mystery, bringing their developing relationship into contact with a threatening past.

Fresh flowers on a previously neglected grave prompt neighbours Steve Patterson and Kendra Jordan to investigate who placed them there. Their search reveals an unexpected history stretching back to the Civil War and the Underground Railroad.

A murder interrupts a caravan's journey through first-century Smyrna, leaving Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, and a physician named Luke to investigate. With no Roman magistrate available, they question a varied group of suspects and examine secrets among the victim's slaves.

An adopted man's search for his birth mother leads him to a wealthy Grand Rapids furniture family and news of her suspicious death. A social services worker helps investigate, while his arrival unsettles relatives who have reasons to resist him.

Albert Bell recalls watching Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series as an eleven-year-old baseball fan. His memoir places the game and season alongside his own coming of age and the social changes surrounding that remembered moment.

Eleven-year-old friends Steve and Kendra investigate renewed interest in the abandoned grave of a child who died in the 1860s. Their discoveries connect their Kentucky community to slavery and the Underground Railroad, while a neighbourhood bully presents a present-day problem.

Emperor Domitian orders Pliny and Tacitus to investigate possible descendants of Augustus. A workman's death and its connection to Pliny's household complicate their assignment, bringing imperial suspicion, family histories, and politically dangerous loyalties into a single investigation.

Steve Patterson and Kendra Jordan notice strange events as an old house near their Kentucky homes undergoes renovation. The young neighbours investigate what is happening around the Bradford property, drawing on their friendship as they confront a new local mystery.

Pliny discovers an apparently dead man while hunting, but cannot determine how he died. When the body vanishes from a locked stable, Tacitus joins an investigation complicated by strangers claiming kinship, assertions of immortality, and further suspicious deaths.

A friend asks Pliny to help her husband, who stands accused of murder in Naples and refuses to defend himself. Investigating with Tacitus forces Pliny to revisit the devastation of Vesuvius and painful memories surrounding his adoptive father's death.

Aurora helps a woman searching for her missing husband, drawing Pliny and Tacitus into the inquiry. Evidence of murder and an injury to Aurora make the case increasingly personal, while imperial attention threatens to force Pliny into an unwelcome alliance.

Celebrity ghostwriter Maureen Cooper's quiet Southern life is disrupted when her ex-husband dies beneath an armoire in his antique shop. Break-ins, former relationships, and questions about a local police officer complicate her efforts to discover what happened.

Building work at Pliny's Lake Como villa reveals a skeleton, prompting an investigation that attracts anonymous threats. His mishandling of Aurora's arranged marriage has already caused personal turmoil, and his wife's subsequent disappearance makes the danger harder to dismiss.

Travel writer Kate Foster resembles the dead wife of an Italian senator whose estate hosts an archaeological dig. As excavation team members die, her guide Michael Donovan becomes entangled in questions of mistaken identity, disturbing voices, and possible murder.

Enslaved Lorcis possesses a clue to her past that matters to early Christians. Helped by another enslaved person and Pliny the Younger, she journeys through a Roman world shaped by Vesuvius, the Colosseum, Domitian's palace, and clandestine religious meetings.

Heavy rains collapse a warehouse in which Pliny has invested, revealing several bodies and a surviving infant. One victim shows signs of murder rather than accidental death, drawing Pliny into a mystery involving aristocratic connections and dangerous political resentments.

A school pen-pal project brings together eleven-year-olds Sandy Walker and T. J. McKenzie, who share baseball interests and single-parent homes. When T. J. visits Sandy's Indiana farm, their expectations of one another clash with the people they actually meet.

Travelling with Tacitus toward Gaul, Pliny and Aurora become stranded by an avalanche in an Alpine village. The location recalls an earlier visit and an unexplained death, as renewed threats connect their present predicament with unfinished dangers from the past.