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.

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

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

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....

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

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.....

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

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

I was the new boy, so they saddled me with the worst jobs....

Saturnalia, the Romans' mid-December feast, nominally to celebrate the sun's rebirth but invariably a drunken riot. Flavia Albia needs a case to investigate, but all work is paused....