Lindsey Davis

In Rome, in the year 70 d. C., Marco Didio Falco is a cynical informant of Republican ideas that one day is stuck by a young woman (Sosia Camiliana) involved in a conspiracy to overthrow Vespasian related to the trafficking of silver ingots from Britain.

Any day in the '70s. C., without special events for a man like Marco Didio Falco: get rid of some other body, follow the lead of a plot against the emperor or get some small profit by dealing with stolen lead. But the routine work of the most sarcastic and disdeceived researcher of Imperial Rome turns around when chance puts him on the trail of Barnadas, a strange character who seems to have something personal against Didio Falco.

On his return to Italy (The Bronze statue), the researcher Marco Didio Falco is hired by the emperor to carry out a work in the Treasury. But, unfortunately, Marco makes an unforgivable accounting mistake that leads him directly to the mythical prison of Latumia, where the noise of the rats torments him day and night. It will be thanks to the continuous and tenacious work of his mother (which gradually becomes more important in the series) that Marco will be able to recover the libe

This delivery of the series on the private researcher of the Imperial Rome Marco Didio Falco, moves between the detectivisca plot and the loving entanglements. While Marco Didio travels to the ends of the empire to clarify the performance of the army elite in the insurrection that emerged in Germania, Helena Justina, Marco's girlfriend, is courted by Tito César, the son of the Vespasian Emperor.

If Marco Didio Falco already had problems being accepted by his girlfriend's family, the only thing he needed to end him in misery was to become the main suspect of the murder of a former legionnaire. But it can still be worse: her beloved Helena Justina is arrested for alleged complicity.

Things are not going well in Rome for Marco Didio Falco, who must accept a mission in the East to make a living. Along with their inseparable Helena Justina, they will join a theatre company where several murders have occurred.

In the summer of 72 Marco Didio Falco and his girlfriend Helena Justina returned to Rome. During his absence, his friend, officer Petronio Longo, has managed to bring one of the heads of the Roman hampa to court. But things soon get complicated.

Marco Didio Falco stumbles again with a body: that of the chief of the secret services of the Emperor Vespasian. Marco's investigations lead him to a company of Hispanic oil importers, and, following his trail, he is forced to travel to Corduba, accompanied by Helena Justina. During his brief stay in Hispania, the couple will also be involved in a dark plot of political and commercial interests urinated by a group of oil tankers who may have serious problems

Once again in Rome after his dangerous mission to Hispania, Marco Didio Falco tries to give a new impetus to his professional life by partnering with his old friend Petronio, while dealing with his endemic family problems. But a macabre and spectacular case will come to alter all your plans: A serial killer who is afraid of all Roman girls is sowing from human hands the water channelling systems of the capital of the Empire. No one like Falco to solve a

It seems that at last the life of the researcher Marco Didio Falco is going to enter into an era of economic exhale and even prosperity, as he has put himself at the service of the Emperor Vespasian as a tax agent with extensive powers and a pay not negligible. However, the death of a great star in the world of show gives a turn to all its plans and uncovers the sordid world of envy and rivalries between coaches and gladiators agents. When an acclaimed gladiator also appears dead, Falco will have no choice but to initiate an investigation that will force him to take a trip to Africa accompanied by his wife Helena and his little daughter Julia.

A newly appointed procurator of the sacred and ascended birds of social category, Marco Didio Falco receives an enigmatic visit: a young woman who is repellent and malnourished wants to hire her services as a researcher, as she fears that a member of her family will kill her. Falco's investigations will lead him to dig up the best kept secrets of a rich promiscuous and powerful family, and to know closely the ever mysterious world of vestal virgins and arval brothers.

Falco sees his dedication to literature rewarded, but what seemed to be a brilliant future as a writer does not take time to become a nightmare. The sudden and mysterious death of a writing forces him to enter the dangerous world of letters, which will lead him to discover the entrenches that are hidden under the glamour. But he must also face a number of domestic problems: his wife Helena Justina has fought with the builders of his new cas, his father is attracted

This time in Britain, Maco will have to investigate a series of strange deaths during the construction of a palace. The ironic darts of the great writer are directed, on this occasion, to the guild of architects and builders who unreasonably and unmassively inflate the expenses and deceive their customers. To exhilarate the mystery Marco will become an inspector of the works and his astonishment will increase as he gets to know the entrenches of the construction.

One of the extremes of the Empire, Londinium is living a stage of splendor. It already has a forum and an amphitheater, trade is gaining a great boost, economic expectations are unbeatable..., an ideal scenario for organized crime to flourish. And yet, the private researcher Marco Didio Falco cannot imagine that his vacation to the British capital will become a real nightmare. It doesn't take long to stumble into the first body, and one murder will lead to another in a

Our Roman detective Falco returns to Rome and puts himself at the service of Silio Italico and Pacio africa, two lawyers of growing fame and wealth in the capital of the Empire on whose methods (including blackmail) all kinds of rumors circulate. The finding of the body of Senator Rubirio Metelo is the first case to fall into Falco's hands, but it seems that the gods are back in the process of convulsing for any of our detective's investigations.

On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic

On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic

Our affectionate Falco is again facing his eternal enemy Anacrites, on this occasion, to resolve a mysterious beheading that can undermine the credibility of the Empire before its political allies. After having captured a famous enemy of Rome, a proud general contracted a strange disease, and his prey escaped without leaving any trace other than a body. But as always, Falco in addition to his research work will have to deal with his already usual domestic problems that

Taken by his aristocratic wife, Falco embarks to Alexandria for the purpose of visiting some of the seven wonders of the world. However, as soon as he arrived, a body appears in the famous library of that city, and that involves him in an investigation that will make him fully known the entrenches of the small political struggles within a cultural institution as emblematic as the Library of Alexandria.

Nemesis opens with two very different lines of argument that end up confluir, in a start that already gives the tone of what the novel will be. On the one hand, Helena, Falco's wife, has just lost a child in childbirth, and this calls her to a bitter depression, but, in the same way, Falco's father, famous for his chanchullos and his dissipated life, also dies, leaving open many doubts about where his fortune and property will stop, and announces a family dispute. In a decision enough

Gaius Vinius is a relutant Praetorian Guard the Emperor's personal guard and a man with a disastrous marriage history. Flavia Lucilla is also in the imperial court and she is responsible not only for having created the ridiculous hairstyle worn by the imperial ladies but for also making toupees for the shooting and increasingly paranoid emperor.

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marco Didio Falco and Helena Justina, a well-known family of researchers. Defying tradition in a world dominated by men, he lives alone on the Aventino hill and faces a solo career. As a woman and a foreigner, Albia has a different view of the best and the worst in ancient Rome.

In ancient Rome, the number of slaves was much higher than that of free citizens and often the Romans felt real fear of "enemies at home," the servants who lived under their own roof. To appease his fear, the government enacted a law agreeing that if a Roman was killed at home and the culprit was not quickly discovered, his slaves - all of them, responsible or not - would be charged and sentenced to death. No exceptions.

In one of the lots of the auction house where Flavia Albia works, a decomposing body has been discovered. Who is it? How did you get there? To help her in the research Flavia Albia has the help of Manlio Fausto, who also has other matters to worry about: it is time for elections to elect the next city governor and Fausto is responsible for the campaign of one of the candidates. In the streets of Rome the tension is maximum and the obstacles to research are many. But Flavia Albia's tenacity knows no limits.

Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or even higher. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he works who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligente yet sinister. He knows not many people like him.

Life smiles at Flavia Albia and his partner, Manlio Fausto. But this new job as a contractor begins with a problem: in the Garden of the Hesperides appear The bones of a tavern boy disappeared years ago. Albia decides to investigate and to do so is to enter real life of the streets of Rome, where the taverns are brothels, workers carry a brutal existence and the game and the extortion is on the agenda. And in the face of that reality, Albia can't forget that her own wedding and her excited family are waiting for you around the corner.

Since he died in the year 68 by his own hand, rumors have not stopped running all over Rome by ensuring that Emperor Nero is alive and willing to claim his throne. Now, the rumors claim that it has already reached the capital of the Empire. And Flavia Albia is charged with finding out what's really in the threat.

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, scrunner, thief and failed pimp works by night and sleep by day; Larius, the fresco paint with dreams of artistic grace, does the opposite. When just after midday the summit of Vesuvius disappearances in a vast volcanic ash cloud, their lives will change forever. While one sets about looting quickly emptying homes the other repeatedly tries to save his family from destruction.

In one of the seven hills of Rome, Mount Quirinal, the young Clodia has died of a love potion. The only person who may have made this potion easier is a woman who responds to the name of Pandora, an expert in herbs, recipes, remedies and conjures who deals with beauty products. And with something much more sinister.

A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in 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. Normally, this would attract very little official notice but this man happened to be in charge of organizing the Imperial Triumph demanded by the emperor.

Too many people tell Flavia Albia, 'Don't go to the Grove'. Such warnings will only bring her to the place she is warned away from, Julius Caesar's Gardens, where she finds more than one intruding mystery. Some has burned tattered scrolls here, by unreadable old philosophers. Hardly has she taken an interest in what looks like book collecting fraud, when far worse happens. A present evil stirs in the undergrowth. A man holds a birthday party that goes terribly wrong, exposing a long series of neglected crimes.

In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia--and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands..

In the first century, under Doumitian's reform, strange and brutal goes on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down.

In the Rome of the first century, the researcher Flavia Albia is hired to clarify the mysterious death of a woman within an aristocratic family. As he invades in inherited secrets, rivalries and dark interests, he discovers that the family past holds a legacy as dangerous as it is mortal.