Resources on the Falco historical fiction mystery series, written by Lindsey Davis. Lindsey Davis sets her mysteries in the Roman Empire under the reign of Vespasian.
Saturnalia is the 18th in the Falco series of historical fiction, by Lindsey Davis, set in Flavian Rome.
Review of Lindsey Davis' Falco murder mystery, "A Body in the Bathhouse," which is set at the Roman palace construction site in ancient Britain that is now an archaeological excavation site near Chichester, in England.
In this, the 15th Falco mystery by Lindsey Davis, we readers find out what Falco's job really is. Falco is an informer, or accuser, a low-born hanger-on, considered a parasite bent on destroying respectable men, but he's a lovable one with a conscience who, unlike some of his patrician colleagues, would rather stick to destroying people who deserve it.
Review of the fourteenth in the Falco mystery series by Lindsey Davis. Following "The Body in the Bathhouse," "The Jupiter Myth" also takes place in Britain.
"One Virgin Too Many," is an entertaining Roman murder mystery, by Lindsey Davis, with surprisingly interrelated twists and turns, featuring Falco as the luckless sleuth whose fortunes appear to be changing at long last.
The twelfth in the Falco series, "Ode to a Banker," by Lindsey Davis, explores the Roman worlds of bankers and writers in a style new to Lindsey Davis -- Falco gathers all suspects together in order to make the guilty one confess.
Lindsey Davis' first novel features Falco, an informer in Flavian Rome, and his future wife, Helena.
Like all good historical mystery fiction writers, Lindsey Davis attends to historical details and creates engaging characters in a complex plot. In her Marcus Didius Falco series, she covers the known world, her gumshoe traveling to Davis' native England, as well as the Roman provinces of Asia and Africa. The first five in the series deal with metals: silver, bronze, copper, iron, and gold.
Sleuth Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina start a family in these six mysteries, by Lindsey Davis. They also tend to Helena Justina's family business in Spain and Africa.
It's not essential to read the Marcus Didius Falco series of mystery novels, by Lindsey Davis, in order, which is good, because some of them are out-of-print, but if you do come in mid-series, be sure to read this page for background on the characters, real and fictitious.
Classicist Ginny Lindzey runs this site, with input from Lindsey Davis. Find notes about jokes running through the novels, a biography of Lindsey Davis, and a biography of her sleuth, Marcus Didius Falco.
