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Lindsey Davis
Full Series List in Order
A Flavia Albia Mystery
1 - The Ides of April (Jun-2013)2 - Enemies at Home (Jul-2014)
2.5 - The Spook Who Spoke Again (Mar-2015)
3 - Deadly Election (Jul-2015)
4 - Graveyard of the Hesperides (Jul-2016)
5 - The Third Nero (Jul-2017)
6 - Pandora's Boy (Jul-2018)
7 - A Capitol Death (Aug-2019)
8 - The Grove of the Caesars (Aug-2020)
9 - A Comedy of Terrors (Aug-2021)
10 - Desperate Undertaking (Aug-2022)
11 - Fatal Legacy (Jul-2023)
12 - Death on the Tiber (Jul-2024)
A Marcus Didius Falco Novel
1 - Silver Pigs (1989)2 - Shadows in Bronze (1990)
3 - Venus in Copper (1991)
4 - The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)
5 - Poseidon's Gold (1993)
6 - Last Act in Palmyra (1994)
7 - Time to Depart (1995)
8 - A Dying Light in Corduba (1996)
9 - Three Hands in the Fountain (1996)
10 - Two for the Lions (Aug-1998)
11 - One Virgin Too Many (Jan-2000)
12 - Ode to a Banker (Sep-2000)
13 - A Body in the Bath House (Sep-2002)
14 - The Jupiter Myth (Sep-2003)
15 - The Accusers (Apr-2004)
16 - Scandal Takes a Holiday (Jul-2004)
17 - See Delphi and Die (Jul-2005)
18 - Saturnalia (May-2007)
19 - Alexandria (Mar-2009)
20 - Nemesis (Sep-2010)
Book List in Order: 44 titles
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Silver Pigs
- 1989
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One fine day, A.D. 70, comely blonde Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the lam from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P .I. Falco wants to know w...
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Shadows in Bronze
- 1990
- / Historical Mystery
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, Marcus Didius Falco, Ancient Rome's favorite son and sometime palace spy, returns to aid the Emperor Vespasian himself. This time citizen Falco has been charged with finding the culprits who are plotting Vespasian's imper...
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Venus in Copper
- 1991
- / Historical Mystery
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The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen. Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying to preve...
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The Iron Hand of Mars
- 1992
- / Historical Mystery
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When wild Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears, the worried Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust: Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's answer to Columbo. To Falco, an undercover...
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Poseidon's Gold
- 1993
- / Historical Mystery
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After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although, he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only c...
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Last Act in Palmyra
- 1994
- / Historical Mystery
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There are times when a shamus has to get out of town, even in A.D. 72. With money and woman troubles mounting in Rome, Falco is heading east to search for a missing Roman Circus performer and to carry out a secret spy mission for the Emperor. The wom...
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Time to Depart
- 1995
- / Historical Mystery
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Roman law allows every citizen condemned to death "time to depart"--in other words, time to skip town. No matter how hard Marcus Didius Falco worked to convict Balbinus Pius, the dirtiest underworld organizer in the empire, the man has gotten away sc...
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A Dying Light in Corduba
- 1996
- / Historical Mystery
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Surprisingly, nobody is poisoned at the Society of Olive Oil Producers banquet. The attempted murder of Rome's Chief Spy occurs immediately afterward. Suspicion, like the Italian night, quickly falls on the dinner's sinuous dancer, a lady who has alr...
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Three Hands in the Fountain
- 1996
- / Historical Mystery
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From spectacles at the Colosseum to sub rosa schemes in the Forum, Lindsey Davis "makes ancient Rome feel as real as ... L.A." says Publishers Weekly. This time, her series detective, the tough-skinned Marcus Didius Falco, must dive into a chilling c...
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Abstain from Beans
- Mar-1997
- / Mystery
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Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...
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The Course of Honor
- Mar-1998
- / Historical Mystery
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In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite -- a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a sl...
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Two for the Lions
- Aug-1998
- / Historical Mystery
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Marcus Didius Falco, bored with a tax collection job, longs for a good murder. Then someone stabs the Empire's executioner. Feared by all, Leonidas the lion doled out justice with a swift, sure blow... before he ate the offender. Joining the hunt for...
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One Virgin Too Many
- Jan-2000
- / Historical Mystery
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A lost child in a deadly lottery . . .A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his ...
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Ode to a Banker
- Sep-2000
- / Historical Mystery
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Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on ...
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A Body in the Bath House
- Sep-2002
- / Historical Mystery
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Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache-building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor. Should F...
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Falco on the Loose
- Jan-2003
- / General Fiction
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Three of Lindsey Davis’s most entertaining novels featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, in one volume.Last Act in Palmyra — Falco takes up a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian, to the untamed East. With the Chief Spy Anacri...
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Something Spooky on Geophys
- 2003
- / Mystery
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'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
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The Jupiter Myth
- Sep-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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In this sensational new novel in her "top-drawer series" (Newsday), Lindsey Davis sets her Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, on the wild streets of London, where he'll need both his sharp wit and sharpened sword to survive in the city along the T...
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The Accusers
- Apr-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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Newly returned from far-flung Londinium and in need of work, Marcus Didius Falco agrees to look into the death of Rubirius Metellus. Convicted of corruption, the rich senator committed suicide--and in doing so, relieved his family of paying his debts...
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Scandal Takes a Holiday
- Jul-2004
- / Historical Mystery
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THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL MAY PROVE DEADLY... As an "informer"--a private detective--Marcus Didius Falco has an insider's knowledge of the Empire's less than glorious side. He's also been in the middle of its most dangerous secrets more than onc...
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See Delphi and Die
- Jul-2005
- / Historical Mystery
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It's 76 A.D. during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco has achieved much in his life. He's joined the equestrain rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the Senator's daughter he's been keeping time with the past few years. But that ...
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Saturnalia
- May-2007
- / Historical Mystery
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WHEN IN ROME, DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY... 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. His...
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Alexandria
- Mar-2009
- / Historical Mystery
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In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so i...
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Rebels and Traitors
- Nov-2009
- / Mystery
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A groundbreaking historical novel set in the English Civil War. Rebels and Traitors is a groundbreaking departure for this most admired of British authors, returning to Lindsey Davis' first love in historical fiction, the English Civil War. Sweeping...
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Falco: The Official Companion
- Jan-2011
- / General Fiction
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"As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes..." So, in 1989, readers were introduced to Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman informer, as he stood on the steps of the Temple of Saturn, looking out across the For...
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Master and God
- Jun-2012
- / General Fiction
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From New York Times bestselling novelist Lindsey Davis comes an epic novel of first-century Rome and the Emperor Domitian, known to all of the Roman world as Master and God Set in the reign of the Emperor Domitian in first-century Rome, Master an...
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The Ides of April
- Jun-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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Falco: The Next Generation Flavia Albia has taken up her father's profession. Only, now Rome is a more dangerous, mercurial place than it was back in dear old dad’s day . . . Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Hel...
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A Cruel Fate
- Feb-2014
- / Historical
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Martin Watts, a bookseller, is captured by Royalists. Jane Afton's brother Nat is taken too. They suffer inhumane treatment as prisoners-of-war. In Oxford Castle jailor William Smith tortures, beats, starves and deprives his helpless victims. Can Ja...
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Enemies at Home
- Jul-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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“There are rules for private informers accepting a new case. Never take on clients who cannot pay you. Never do favours for friends. Don’t work with relatives. If, like me, you are a woman, keep clear of men you find attractive. “Will I nev...
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The Spook Who Spoke Again
- Mar-2015
- / Historical
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Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or perhaps eleven. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he worries who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligent yet sinister. He knows not ...
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Deadly Election
- Jul-2015
- / Historical Mystery
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In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So despite the oppressive July heat, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, t...
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Graveyard of the Hesperides
- Jul-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases---cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till---but this isn't a typical da...
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Vesuvius by Night
- Mar-2017
- / Historical
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In the late August of AD 79 the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum are going about their normal business in the late summer heat. Two of them have a room share arrangement: Nonius, scrounger, thief and failed pimp works by night and sleeps by day...
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The Third Nero
- Jul-2017
- / Historical Mystery
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Intrigue―and possibly treason―swirl around the hall of power in Rome when yet another Nero pretender emerges to challenge the Emperor. In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about ...
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Pandora's Boy
- Jul-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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A suspicious death and subsequent murder send Flavia Albia down a twisted path to expose corruption and betrayal in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, Pandora's Boy. First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be ...
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Invitation to Die
- Jun-2019
- / Historical Mystery
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Roman emperor Domitian throws a terrifying banquet for the Senators -- one that everyone is certain they won't survive -- in Lindsey Davis's Invitation to Die: A Novella of Ancient Rome.The emperor Domitian is paranoid, autocratic, and violent. And h...
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A Capitol Death
- Aug-2019
- / Historical Mystery
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In Rome, ruled by the erratic Emperor Domitian, Flavia Albia is dragged into the worst sort of investigation―a politically charged murder―in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Capitol Death. A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian...
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The Grove of the Caesars
- Aug-2020
- / Historical Mystery
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In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth―a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim―in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, The Grove of the Caesars. At the feet ...
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A Comedy of Terrors
- Aug-2021
- / Historical Mystery
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"Melds scrupulous research, arch banter, caustic characters, and strong plotting...Flavia Albia is delightful, trickster-y company to spend time with." -- New York Times Book ReviewIn Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retri...
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Desperate Undertaking
- Aug-2022
- / Thriller
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In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, 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...
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Fatal Legacy
- Jul-2023
- / Police Procedural
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In first century Rome, Flavia Albia takes on an easy case that soon proves to be anything but as, at every turn, bodies -- old and new -- dog her path.Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private in...
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Voices Of Rome
- May-2024
- / Historical Mystery
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Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living noveli...
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Death on the Tiber
- Jul-2024
- / Historical Mystery
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In first century Rome, a murder victim found in the Tiber leads to a brutal gang war and Flavia Albia to a confrontation with her long-hated nemesis, with all that she loves in the balance.First century Rome is plagued by all the evils the have bese...
