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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work. Flavia...
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost-always keep one's distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the...
5) Fatal legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 informer. She only has two hard and fast rules - avoid political cases and family cases because nothing good comes of either of them. Unfortunately, since Albia isn't good at avoiding either, it's really...
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of...
10) A capitol death
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Stepping in for her ailing husband in the wake of a political assassination, private informer Flavia Albia uncovers unsettling truths about the victim and a disturbing number of suspects against a backdrop of the erratic Emperor Domitian's ill-advised military celebrations.
Author
Language
English
Description
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 slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn...
12) Time to depart
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In ancient Rome, Marcus Didius Falco, the emperor's secret agent investigates a rash of murders believed to be the work of the convicted mobster Balbinus. From his exile, Balbinus is revenging himself on the people who helped convict him. Lots of local color, from weddings to Roman firefighting methods.
13) The accusers
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
14) Pandora's boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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. First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be and in this environment, a very clever private informer can thrive. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, is a chip off the old block. She's taken over her father's old profession, and, like him, she occasionally...
15) The Jupiter myth
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press Published by Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Our hero, having discovered true love, has enough to worry him even before shadowy figures glimpsed late at night and a series of fatal accidents convince Falco and the Emperor that traitors are still conspiring and must be brought to book. Mourning Helena, who seems to want to abandon him, Falco sets off on a ramble through the Roman holiday spots, acquiring a goat on the Toe of Italy and accompanied around the Bay of Naples by his best friend Petronius...
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Roman citizen Marcus Didius Falco welcomes an investigation commissioned by the emperor into treason after Helena Justina, a beauty of privilege, breaks his heart, but finds more trouble than expected.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Ancient Roman investigator Marcus Didius Falco finds trouble on the site of a new palace being built by the king of the Atrebates tribe in distant Britain.
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