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Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1996
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Flavia Albia mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a fatal accident, an investigation that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia's reputation at stake.
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
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...
6) Alexandria
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
7) Saturnalia
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 18
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2007
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
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...
11) 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
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is desperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison--though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity. Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidentally, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And, all the while,...
13) The Jupiter myth
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press Published by Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
14) The accusers
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
15) 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.
16) 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...
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
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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 day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together. Also, his contracting...
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