Lindsey Davis

This is the classic novel that introduced people around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble....

It's the first century AD, and Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's favorite son and sometimes palace spy, has just been dealt a lousy blow from the gods....

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

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society....

A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum from the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome. While it looks like a suicide, one witness swears that she saw it happen and that he was pushed....

Infamia, the pen name of the gossip columnist for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing, and his fellow scribes have employed Falco to bring him back....

First-century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be. Over on the Quirinal Hill, a naive young girl has died, and there's a suggestion that she was poisoned by a love potion....

It's 76 A.D. during the reign of Vespasian and the Roman festival of Saturnalia is getting underway. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. But not for "informer" Marcus Didius Falco....

Marcus Didius Falco is about to get involved in a nasty noir crime, involving gangsters, gladiators, and romance....

In first century A.D. Rome, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground....

Surprisingly, nobody is poisoned at the Society of Olive Oil Producers banquet; the attempted murder of Rome's chief spy occurs immediately afterward....

The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks up extra fees from his old friend, Thalia....

In the late August of AD 79, the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum are going about their normal business in the late summer heat....

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems....

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand....

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

A mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death.

Men are fools for love. And that includes Marcus Didius Falco. To please his beloved, the shamus has become Procurer of the Sacred Poultry (i.e., babysitter of the temple geese)....

Marcus Didius Falco ventures into a new arena, the publishing world of AD 74, to prove that ars longa, vita brevis - and murder is timeless....

Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that's sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco's own household, specifically the bathhouse - where a body turns up....