Gangsters and Gladiating...both Bloody
For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of...

Falco has his deadly day in court

Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with two lawyers at...

The ancient sports of murder and myth

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist....

Contractors on schedule for corpses in Britannia

AD 75: as a passion for home improvement sweeps through the Roman Empire,...

A murdered legionary - and there's one prime suspect

AD 72: Marcus Didius Falco returns home from a six-month mission to the...

Drowning in mystery, dying on stage.
The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor...

In the high summer of AD 77, laid-back detective Marcus Didius Falco is called upon to investigate the mysterious disappearance...

'I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.'

AD 77. Egypt was...

‘What did he eat last? Whom did he eat, in fact?’

Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has the...

‘The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues.’

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer...

A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation...

'The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that...'

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their...

Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a...

Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under...

AD 71, Germania Libera: dark dripping forests, inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious...

Things are going well for Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's investigator: he hates sharing a cell with a rodent, although being...

Rome, AD 71: Against his better judgement, Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian,...

Marcus Didius Falco is a private informer, the closest thing that first-century Rome has to a detective.

A new emperor,...

One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series

‘We should have time to manage it … and still get...