Lacking Natural Simplicity

Snobbery with Violence, by Marion Chesney; St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003. Marion Chesney also writes as M.C. Beaton. An adequate historical mystery.

The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell; HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Originally published in Great Britan in 2004.

Empire of the Eagle, by Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz; copyright 1993 by Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz; A Tor Book, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., first edition November 1993, first mass market edition May 1995.