Bøger af Lindsey Davis

They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup, now sunning themselves in luxurious villas and on fancy yachts. The idyllic seaside location further complicates his seemingly doomed romance with Helena Justina.

The next book in the gripping Flavia Albia series, by acclaimed author Lindsey Davis

From the creator of Falco comes Falco: the new generation, featuring her unforgettable heroine Flavia Albia in her sixth novel.

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances. Albia investigates and discovers there have been many other strange deaths all over the city, yet she is warned off by the authorities. The vigils are incompetent. The local magistrate is otherwise engaged, organising the Games of Ceres, notorious for its ancient fox-burning ritual. Even Albia herself is preoccupied with a new love affair: Andronicus, an attractive archivist, offers all that a love-starved young widow can want, even though she knows better than to take him home to meet the parents... As the festival progresses, her neighbourhood descends into mayhem and becomes the heartless killer's territory. While Albia and her allies search for him, he stalks them through familiar byways and brings murder ever closer to home. The Ides of April is vintage Lindsey Davis, offering wit, intrigue, action and a brilliant new heroine who promises to be as celebrated as Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina, her fictional predecessors.

Whom did he eat, in fact?'Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has the perfect plan to make money - he will assist Vespasian in the Emperor's 'Great Census' of AD 73.

Easier said than done, thinks Falco, as he makes his uneasy way down the Rhenus, trying to forget that back in sunny Rome his girlfriend Helena Justina is being hotly pursued by Titus Caesar.

'Rats are always bigger than you expect...'Falco, ancient Rome's hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent - though being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarassing.

From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the fourth novel in her all-new series set in ancient Rome.We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask.

In the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she's determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end.The investigation will give her a chance to work with the magistrate, Manlius Faustus, the friend she sadly knows to be the last chaste man in Rome. But he's got other concerns than her anonymous corpse. It's election time and with democracy for sale at Domitian's court, tension has come to a head. Faustus is acting as an agent for a 'good husband and father', whose traditional family values are being called into question. Even more disreputable are his rivals, whom Faustus wants Albia to discredit.As Albia's and Faustus' professional and personal partnership deepens they have to accept that, for others, obsession can turn sour, and become a deadly strain that leads, tragically, to murder.

We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a good living as a hired investigator. An outsider in more ways than one, Albia has unique insight into life in ancient Rome, and she puts it to good use going places no man could go, and asking questions no man could ask.Even as the dust settles from her last case, Albia finds herself once again drawn into a web of lies and intrigue. Two mysterious deaths at a local villa may be murder and, as the household slaves are implicated, Albia is once again forced to involve herself. Her fight is not just for truth and justice, however; this time, she's also battling for the very lives of people who can't fight for themselves.Enemies at Home presents Ancient Rome as only Lindsey Davis can, offering wit, intrigue, action and the further adventures of a brilliant new heroine who promises to be as celebrated as Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina, her fictional predecessors.

But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette - with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal - Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there... 'Infamia', the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing.

In the high summer of 77 AD, 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. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father, Geminus, have disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

'Luckily the judge was eager to adjourn for lunch.'Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with two lawyers at the top of their trade. With a little coercion, Falco joins the prosecution in seeking to persuade a magistrate to instigate a new trial.

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, 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.

'To find a drowned man head-first down a well was slightly unusual, exciting maybe.'For Falco, a relaxed visit to Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of a downtown murder.

Egypt was the destination of choice for Roman tourists, being home to not one but two Wonders of the Ancient World, a Centre of Culture, and people with exotic habits. Unfortunately, when Marcus Didius Falco pays a visit he discovers it's also a hotbed of schemers and murderers.

'Davis's prose is a lively joy, and Flavia's Rome is sinister and gloriously real' The Times on SaturdayFlavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled and they have no funds. So when Palace officials ask her to expose a traitor in their midst she is ready for the task. Ever since the Emperor Nero committed suicide in AD 68, Rome has been haunted by reports that he is actually alive and ready to reclaim his throne. Two Nero pretenders have emerged from the East and met grisly fates. But now a new pretender has been smuggled into Rome by the traitor. Flavia must negotiate with spies, dodge assassins and reveal this third Nero before he can make his move. Will she act in time or will Rome once more be plunged into civil war?

Rom, 71 e.Kr.: En lille regnskabsfejl har gjort, at Marcus Didius Falco må dele celle med en stor rotte i det berygtede Lautumiae-fængsel, indtil han bliver løsladt mod kaution – betalt af hans mor. At blive reddet af sin mor er slemt nok, men tingene går fra slemt til værre, da en gruppe frigivne slaver hyrer ham til at overliste den rødhårede Severina Zotica, som de mistænker for at være lykkejæger. Falco påtager sig at efterforske Severinas sande hensigter, men befinder sig hurtigt i et farligt virvar af løgne og intriger, der risikerer at påvirke både ham selv og hans store kærlighed, Helena Justina.Om forfatteren:Lindsey Davis (f. 1949 i Birmingham) arbejdede i årevis som embedsmand, indtil hendes store interesse for historie og arkæologi i 1989 fik hende til at skrive en krimiserie, der foregår i det gamle Rom. Serien om Marcus Falco har siden solgt millioner af eksemplarer verden over, og bind 1-3 er nu genudgivet på dansk.

Rom, 71 e.Kr.: Marcus Didius Falco, ekslegionær og privat efterforsker er nået langt: Hans klienter bor ikke længere i de mørke gyder i Suburra, men i byhuse på Palatinerhøjen. Nærheden til magten har dog en pris: Før Falco ved af det, skal han påtage sig delikate og farlige opgaver for kejser Vespasian – opgaver som aldrig må forbindes med herskerens navn. På vegne af kejseren rejser Falco til det sydlige Italien, hvor der går rygter om en ny sammensværgelse mod kejseren. Men missionen er langt mere kompliceret, end han kunne have forestillet sig – og lige da Falco mindst venter det, dukker Helena Justina, senatorens datter, som han har gjort alt for at glemme, op igen.Om forfatteren:Lindsey Davis (f. 1949 i Birmingham) arbejdede i årevis som embedsmand, indtil hendes store interesse for historie og arkæologi i 1989 fik hende til at skrive en krimiserie, der foregår i det gamle Rom. Serien om Marcus Falco har siden solgt millioner af eksemplarer verden over, og bind 1-3 er nu genudgivet på dansk.

Rom, 71 e.Kr.: Ingen kender byen bedre end Marcus Didius Falco. Ekslegionæren regnes for den bedste efterforsker, og alligevel mangler han altid penge. Men en dag spiller skæbnens gudinde ham et lovende job i armene i form af den unge, smukke Sosia Camillina, som er på flugt fra sine kidnappere. Snart bliver Falco viklet ind i et drabeligt plot, der involverer stjålne sølvbarrer og sender Falco til sølvminerne i de britiske provinser. Der, i udkanten af imperiet, afslører han en sammensværgelse, hvis net strækker sig helt ind i magtens hjerte - og som vil kunne kaste imperiet i afgrunden. Og dér møder han Helena Justina, senatorens datter, og besegler ubevidst sin skæbne …Om forfatteren:Lindsey Davis (f. 1949 i Birmingham) arbejdede i årevis som embedsmand, indtil hendes store interesse for historie og arkæologi i 1989 fik hende til at skrive en krimiserie, der foregår i det gamle Rom. Serien om Marcus Falco har siden solgt millioner af eksemplarer verden over, og bind 1-3 er nu genudgivet på dansk.

In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death.In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down.This time a commission shows up on her doorstep - someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different. So far, the only clue was the phrase that one survivor managed to croak, "The undertaker did it..." With little to go on and bodies starting to pile up, Albia has to unravel the strangest mystery of her career in short order if she's to stop this dismaying orgy of murder.