Lindsey Davis
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of the first five Falco novels by Lindsey Davis, starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco.
The Silver Pigs:
One fine day, A.D. 70, Sosia Camillina quite literally runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the run from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P.I. Falco wants to know why. Hoping for future favors from Sosia's powerful
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Roman private eye Falco is dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver an iron hand to one of the legions. Germania is cold, wet, dismal, and full of dark forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians, but Falco has an even bigger problem to worry about--he has forgotten Helena Justina's birthday, and she is being pursued by the Emperor's son Titus Caesar. As Falco makes his way through dangerous territory, he encounters the...
Author
Series
Flavia Albia novel 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.
10) Nemesis
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a pair of his father's associates disappear under suspicious circumstances, informer Marcus Didius Falco of A.D. 77 Rome investigates allegations of a feud involving a group of notorious freedmen, who are receiving high-level protection from corruptrulers.
11) Deadly election
Author
Series
Flavia Albia mystery volume 3
Publisher
St Martins Pr
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...
12) Enemies at home
Author
Series
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The first-century Roman daughter of Marcus Didius Falco investigates a murder and burglary for which the victims' innocent slaves will be executed unless the real culprit is found.
15) Master and God
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gaius Vinius is a reluctant Praetorian Guard. Flavia Lucilla is responsible for making toupees for the balding and increasingly paranoid emperor. The two of them are brought together during a devastating fire in Rome, leading to a lifelong friendship.Together they watch Domitian's once talented rule unravel into madness and cruelty, until the people closest to him conspire to delete him from history.
Author
Series
Flavia Albia mystery volume 4
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...
18) The third Nero
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...
19) 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...
20) A capitol death
Author
Series
Flavia Albia mystery volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 Triumphs demanded by the emperor. The Emperor Domitian, autocratic and erratic, has decided that he deserves two Triumphs...