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Recommended by Eliana Scott

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Books By Lindsey Davis

Death on the Tiber
A Cruel Fate
Falco: The Official Companion
Voices of Rome
The Spook Who Spoke Again
Invitation to Die: A Short Story of Falco's Rome
Three Hands in the Fountain
The Course of Honour
Two for the Lions
Rebels and Traitors
One Virgin Too Many
Master and God
Ode To A Banker
Vesuvius by Night
A Body in the Bathhouse
The Jupiter Myth
The Accusers
Scandal Takes a Holiday
See Delphi and Die
Saturnalia
Alexandria
Nemesis
The Ides of April
Poseidon's Gold
Enemies at Home: A Flavia Albia Novel
Last Act in Palmyra
Deadly Election
Time to Depart
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
A Dying Light in Corduba
The Third Nero
Pandora's Boy
A Capitol Death
The Grove of the Caesars
A Comedy of Terrors
Desperate Undertaking
Fatal Legacy
The Silver Pigs
Shadows in Bronze
Venus in Copper
The Iron Hand of Mars

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Salvēte readers! Are you ready to be transported back in time to the bustling streets of ancient Rome with all its political intrigue, nefarious plots for power, and, sometimes, murder? Marcus Didius Falco and Flavia Albia are the fictional investigators and private informers to the emperors of Rome in Lindsey Davis’s fun and lively historical mystery series. Each character has their own separate series but the father and daughter share a sharp wit and a knack for getting into trouble. The historical setting allows Davis to immerse readers in an ancient world both familiar and exotic and explore all its delights and dangers. By mixing fictional characters with real historical figures readers get a bit of a history lesson while being thoroughly entertained. Is Davis’s meticulous attention to life in Roman times one of the main drawing points for you? Or do you enjoy Falvia’s acerbic observations and Falco’s comedic quips (“I am a Roman informer, not a Greek philosopher!”)?

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Recommended Books From Lindsey Davis Fans

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Wings of Fire
Chaos
Waiting for Wednesday
The Gate Keeper
The Maharani's Pearls: A Bess Crawford Story
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Death of a Witch
The Talented Mr. Varg
Forever and a Day: A James Bond Novel
Whiteout
The Winds of Change
The Sacred Bridge: A Mystery Novel
The Scarpetta Factor
Dark Road
The One Thing More
The Right Jack
A Comedy of Terrors
And Justice There Is None
Three to Get Deadly
Vesuvius by Night
Broken: A Novel
Fugitive Colors
The Bone Code
Silent Voices
Dance of the Bones
Motor Mouth
The Blood Card
Lying in Wait
An Impartial Witness
The Bones of Paris
The Night House
Echo Park
Dishing the Dirt
Death of a Celebrity
A Christmas Hope: A Novel
Eye of the Wolf
Unnatural Causes
The Stone Circle
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
A Bird in the Hand
Tamarack County
The Locked Room
Exiles
Hell Is Empty: A Longmire Mystery
The Comfort of Ghosts
Hostage to Murder
Even Dogs in the Wild
Set in Darkness
Justice Denied
Biting the Moon
A Silent Death
Clawback
Mary's Christmas
Rebus' Scotland
When Will There Be Good News
A Christmas Visitor
Wings of the Falcon
A Simple Deduction
Lightning Strikes the Silence
The Hanging Valley
Malice Domestic 1
A Cruel Fate
Bleeding Hearts
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Silent Prey
Death of a Valentine
The Last Mrs. Summers
Wild Crimes
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor
The Shape Shifter
Cold Wind
Void Moon
Cold Comfort: A Novella
Salem Falls
Daughters of Rome
The Black Ice
Disappearance of a Scribe
Death of a Green-Eyed Monster
The Last Detective
Desolation Mountain
Dead in the Water
The Midnight Hour
The Distant Hours
Oh Danny Boy
The Impossible Dead
Justice Hall
The Edge of Dreams
Star Struck
Among the Wicked
A Refiner’s Fire
Another Kind of Eden
Maisie Dobbs
The Modigliani Scandal
Blowback
I Am the Only Running Footman
Stone Cold
The Sound of Broken Glass
Weighed in the Balance: A William Monk Novel
In a Gilded Cage
The Other Side of the Door
Gone Missing
Depraved Heart
Cold Is the Grave: An Inspector Banks Novel
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
Malice at the Palace
Cross and Burn
Three Debts Paid
City of Darkness and Light
Belgrave Square
Golden Prey
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
As the Crow Flies: A Longmire Mystery
Not the Ones Dead
Dead Man's Footsteps
Honor & . . .(MatchUp Collection)
Full Tilt: A Novel
Someone in the House
No Honor Among Thieves
Sons of the Wolf
Endangered Species
The Collected Short Stories and Essays
A Matter of Justice
Losing You
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Credible Threat
A Bitter Feast
The Bone Garden
Second Watch
Murder on Brittany Shores: A Mystery
Jerusalem Inn
A Bitter Truth
Children of the Revolution
Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Prince of Fire
The Crowded Grave
Insidious Intent
Paradise Valley
Seven Years
Remaindered
Prince of Darkness
Away in a Manger
The Midnight Feast
City of Bones
Murder for Love
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
A Case of Spirits
The Family Way
A Thief of Time
Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Master of Blacktower
Hot Six
Find Them Dead
Alchemist
Vanish with the Rose
12 Rose Street
Acqua Alta
Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel
206 Bones
Street of the Five Moons: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Death of a Nurse
Another Man's Moccasins: A Longmire Mystery
Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport
Jolie Blon's Bounce
The Stargazey
Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story
A Christmas Vanishing: A Novel
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Two Kinds of Truth
The Endless Knot
Kaleidoscope: A Countess Karitska Novel
Miss Pym Disposes
Death of a Spy
Murder at the Mendel
The Franchise Affair
House of Many Shadows
Fool's Bluff
Legend in Green Velvet
The Thirteenth Rose
Blood Memory
Blindman's Bluff: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
The Grey Beginning
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Out of Range
A Highland Christmas: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
Cop to Corpse
Patriot's Dream
A Cold Day for Murder
A Superior Death
The Raging Storm
Moriarty
Mulholland Dive: Three Stories
Gun Games
A Question of Honor
Unseen: A Novel
Death of a Charming Man
Deja Dead
A Christmas Homecoming
Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery
With No One as Witness
The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel
The Old Contemptibles
Island of the Mad
Bruno and Le Pere Noel: A Bruno
The Outcast Dead
13 1/2
A Death in Cornwall
The Devil's Bed
Disappeared: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Search the Shadows
The Handsome Man's de Luxe Café
Long Spoon Lane
Blood Moon: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
The Laws of Murder
Nowhere to Run
Burn Marks: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
Breakdown: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Destroyer Angel
Blood Will Tell
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Bruno
For the Sake of Elena
A Grave Talent
The Waiting
A Christmas Revelation: A Novel
The Accusers
Dull Knife
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Dead Water
Evanly Bodies
Trophy Hunt
To Kill a Troubadour
An Obvious Fact: A Longmire Mystery
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
In the Moon of Red Ponies
An Incomplete Revenge
Payment in Blood
The Last Widow: A Will Trent Thriller
Royal Blood
Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane
The Longmire Defense
Death of a Snob
Open Season
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Scarpetta
Mortal Prey
Full Speed
Triple Jeopardy
D is for Deadbeat
Death in Blue Folders
A Lonely Death
The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Cold Betrayal
Dead Watch
Hornet's Nest
The Rose Arbor
Stop Them Dead
Time Bomb
Listen to Me
Through a Glass
The Fly on the Wall
I Shall Not Want
Come Death and High Water
In Plain Sight
Blood Work
Crime Scene: A Novel
The Redeemer
Fire and Ice
A Beautiful Blue Death
Lie Down with Lions
A Christmas Guest
A Column of Fire
Her Last Breath
The Madness of Crowds
Spider Girl
The Forgotten Garden
Bittersweet Oblivion
The New Girl
An East End Murder: A Charles Lennox Short Story
A Pattern of Lies
Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel
A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel
The Late Show
The Bat
The Clockmaker's Daughter
Unfinished Business
Mistress of Rome
Billy Straight: A Novel
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
What to Do When Someone Dies
Break No Bones
Red Eye: Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch
The Spook Who Spoke Again
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Trouble
Black and Blue
Less Than a Treason

“Emperors came and went while bureaucracy continued, as rampant as mould.”

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Nikki Jones
“Falco gets entangled in more than solving murders. There’s blackmail, stolen artifacts, fraud and kidnappings to investigate. All in a day’s work if you’re employed by the Roman Empire. What makes the Falco mysteries so fun is how the fictional crimes give a glimpse into life in ancient Rome. And I have to say Falco is a great creation. He’s very funny. I picked the books up after reading that Donna Leon recommends them. I’m just starting the Flavia Alba series which is different but equally entertaining.”

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