Lindsey Davis

Ten years after the eruption of Vesuvius, the surrounding countryside lies buried and barren. But the destroyed cities and luxury villas on the Bay of Naples are not utterly lost.

Falco: the new generation - Introducing Flavia Albia....

Things turn serious at the scene of a murder. King Togidubnus has been stuffed down a bar-room well - leading to a diplomatic situation which Marcus must resolve....

I was just a freelance hero doing his best in a hard world....

Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for the celebration accidentally falls to his death from a cliff on the symbolic Capitoline Hill....

Falco embarks on an intricate case of smuggling, murder, and treason that reaches into the palace itself....

"I’ve always wanted to see something of the Empire outside Rome"....

An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet....

Fresh from his trip to Britain, Falco needs to re-establish his presence in Rome....

What did he eat last? Whom did he eat, in fact?

Marcus Didius Falco discovers that rank brings problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse....

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand, as usual.....

Rats are always bigger than you expect. Falco, ancient Rome's hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent ....

Julius Caesar left his gardens to the citizens of Rome, a peaceful sanctuary across the Tiber....

In the high summer of AD 77, Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals, it is a relief for him to consider someone else’s misfortunes....

Your brother seemed to know what he was doing.' Rome, AD 72. Falco returns home from a six-month mission to the German legions....

Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem....

It is 73 AD in Ancient Rome and inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance....

Flavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife....

A suspicious death occurs at the famous Great Library. The authorities rapidly hand Falco the investigation; he is after all the well-known informer from Rome....