Marcus Didius Falco Series by Lindsey Davis, Christian Rodska

4.02 · 324 ratings
  • Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco #1)
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    Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco #1)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1989

    Combining the wry humor of a modern gumshoe novel with the serpentine political intrigues of ancient Rome, Silver Pigs follows the riotous exploits of a hard-nosed private detective.

  • Shadows in Bronze (Marcus Didius Falco #2)
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    Shadows in Bronze (Marcus Didius Falco #2)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1990

    Can the hero of Silver Pigs satisfy the emperor he works for and the woman he pines for without getting himself killed? With readers and critics hungry for his further adventures, Ancient Roman gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco really has no choice.

  • Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco #3)
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    Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco #3)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1991

    Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's answer to Columbo, is hired by relatives of a wealthy real estate developer, Hortensius, to find his murderer. What Falco uncovers is a hotbed of crime in the unscrupulous business dealings of Hortensius. The third book in the series of amusing, romantic detective thrillers set in ancient Rome.

  • The Iron Hand of Mars: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco #4)
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    The Iron Hand of Mars: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco #4)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1992

    When Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears, Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust: Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer whose rates are low enough that even the stingy Vespasian is willing to pay them.To Falco, an undercover tour of Germania is an assignment from Hades. On a journey that only a stoic could survive, Falco meets with disarray, torture, and murder... more

  • Poseidon's Gold (Marcus Didius Falco #5)
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    Poseidon's Gold (Marcus Didius Falco #5)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1993

    A.D. 72: To many, Rome is the center of the Empire. To Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead some twenty years before. Trouble is the last thing Falco wants on his return from a six-month mission to the German legions... more

  • Last Act in Palmyra (Marcus Didius Falco #6)
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    Last Act in Palmyra (Marcus Didius Falco #6)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1994

    It's AD 72 Rome, and Emperor Vespasian refuses to elevate sometime sleuth Marcus Didius Falco to the middle rank. Yet hope springs eternal, so when Vespasian's chief spy offers Falco an assignment in the East, he jumps at the chance. But his new assignment soon becomes a nightmare when he finds the corpse of a Roman playwright in a sacred pool. To ferret out the murderer, Falco joins the traveling theater group.

  • Time to Depart (Marcus Didius Falco #7)
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    Time to Depart (Marcus Didius Falco #7)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1995

    Balbinus Pius, the dirtiest underworld organizer in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last, thanks to public servant Petronius Longus, better known to Marcus Didius Falco as his old army buddy Petro. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows every citizen condemned to death time to depart. In other words, he has a chance to skip town. Taking full advantage of the law, Bilbinus embarks on a ship fit for a king, accompanied by his loyal factotums... more

  • A Dying Light in Corduba (Marcus Didius Falco #8)
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    A Dying Light in Corduba (Marcus Didius Falco #8)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1996

    Nobody is poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers; the assassination attempt comes afterward. Falco ought to know, he is at the banquet along with some unexpected guests, including Anacrites the Chief Spy and Falco's own hostile brat of a brother-in-law, Aelianus. Right from the first, Falco eyes the entertainment - which includes a sinuous Spanish dancer scantily dressed as Diana the Huntress - with suspicion... more

  • Three Hands in the Fountain (Marcus Didius Falco #9)
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    Three Hands in the Fountain (Marcus Didius Falco #9)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1996

    In vino veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horror, as Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand. Small and evidently female, the hand suggests its owner met a terrifying fate. Naturally, Falco and Petro, formerly of the Vigiles, want to seize on it as their first big case... more

  • Two for the Lions (Marcus Didius Falco #10)
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    Two for the Lions (Marcus Didius Falco #10)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1998

    The Sam Spade of Ancient Rome ("Publishers Weekly") sinks his teeth into the investigation of a star gladiator's murder in the tenth novel in this popular mystery series. "A detail-rich scan of daily life in ancient Rome".--"Booklist".

  • One Virgin Too Many (Marcus Didius Falco #11)
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    One Virgin Too Many (Marcus Didius Falco #11)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1999

    Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical, hard-boiled investigator living in first-century Rome. His latest case finds him drawn into the world of the Roman religious cults and the murder of a member of the Sacred Brotherhoods.

  • Ode to a Banker (Marcus Didius Falco #12)
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    Ode to a Banker (Marcus Didius Falco #12)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2000

    In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls... more

  • A Body in the Bathhouse (Marcus Didius Falco #13)
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    A Body in the Bathhouse (Marcus Didius Falco #13)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2001

    In another classical crime romp, this time in Roman Britain, Falco investigates a spate of killings, only to find himself next on the assassins' list.Marcus Didius Falco, once a common informer, now middle class, discovers that newly acquired rank brings associated problems, the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house. The contractors have fled to Britain where, as the Fates have it, Falco is ordered... more

  • The Jupiter Myth (Marcus Didius Falco #14)
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    The Jupiter Myth (Marcus Didius Falco #14)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2002

    Stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium, Marcus Didius Falco is ready to pack up his family and go home... until the corpse of a nobleman turns up, head down, in a well behind a local tavern. The dead man turns out to be a close friend of the king and suddenly Falco has a murder case to solve before he can get out of town. Taking on the British tradition of the pub crawl, he soon gets a major hangover -- along with a tip that the victim had dealings with dangerous gangsters... more

  • The Accusers (Marcus Didius Falco #15)
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    The Accusers (Marcus Didius Falco #15)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2003

    Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove he was murdered because suicide nullifies the prosecution's financial claims... more

  • Scandal Takes a Holiday (Marcus Didius Falco #16)
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    Scandal Takes a Holiday (Marcus Didius Falco #16)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2004

    As an "informer"--a private detective--Marcus Didius Falco has an insider's knowledge of the Empire's less than glorious side. He's also been in the middle of its most dangerous secrets more than once. So when he's hired to find notorious gossip "scribe" Infamia, Marcus figures the missing muckraker is either taking advantage of a vacation bribe from some wealthy wife--or resting up from injuries inflicted by some senator's henchmen... more

  • See Delphi and Die (Marcus Didius Falco #17)
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    See Delphi and Die (Marcus Didius Falco #17)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2005

    It's 76 A.D. during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco has achieved much in his life. He's joined the equestrain rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the Senator's daughter he's been keeping time with the past few years. But that doesn't mean all is quiet for Falco, Helena, and their two young daughters.By trade he is an informer, a man who looks into sticky situations, and he's been hired to pry his errant brother-in-law away from a murder investigation... more

  • Saturnalia (Marcus Didius Falco #18)
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    Saturnalia (Marcus Didius Falco #18)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2007

    It's 76 A.D. during the reign of Vespasian and the Roman holiday of Saturnalia has begun. The days are short; the nights are for wild parties. But not for Marcus Didius Falco. Falco is an informer by trade - his job is to uncover unwelcome truths and deal with sensitive situations, frequently at the behest of the imperial government. And just such a case has arisen. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his eventual Triumph as a ritual sacrifice... more

  • Alexandria (Marcus Didius Falco #19)
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    Alexandria (Marcus Didius Falco #19)

    Lindsey Davis, Christian Rodska

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2009

    In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground.  But even informers take vacations with their wives, so Falco and his wife, Helena Justina, with their two young children and others in tow, travel to Alexandria, Egypt... more

  • Nemesis (Marcus Didius Falco #20)
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    Nemesis (Marcus Didius Falco #20)

    Lindsey Davis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2010

    The much awaited latest installment in this New York Times bestselling series brings Marcus Didius Falco back to the city of Rome and its deadly, convoluted intrigues   In the high summer of A.D. 77, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone else’s misfortunes... more

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