The murder of a star gladiator finds Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco in Tripoli searching for clues, where he uncovers evidence and danger aplenty

Private investigator and royal informer Marcus Didius Falco is hot on the trail of organized crime in 72 A.D. Rome. Assisted by his girlfriend Helena Justina and his best friend, watch captain L. Petronius Longus, Falco tries to complete this imperial commission without being killed. Meanwhile he's hampered with a stray dog, an abandoned baby, a missing niece, and an irritating landlord.

Falco is on an undercover mission to Roman Germany when he encounters natives wanting revenge for old grudges. Will he prevail?

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.

Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and investigator in first-century Rome, is commissioned by Emperor Vespasian to find an important German prisoner who has escaped into the chaos of the Saturnalia festivities, leaving a decapitated corpse behind, and his job becomes more complicated when his married brother-in-law, a former lover of the fugitive, goes missing at the same time.

Marcus Didius Falco is stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium in A.D. 75, where he finds himself involved in a murder mystery that may keep him from ever returning home.

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked-by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers.Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducted during festivals, and the next Games are only days away. As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus, they face a race against...

Ancient Rome's organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, Falco is forced to admit his real reason for being there....

The thirteenth novel featuring sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that's sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco's own household, specifically the bathhouse-where a body turns up. 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....

"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...