Time to Depart

The Silver Pigs

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

The Silver Pigs is the classic novel that introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice.When Marcus Didius Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is... Read more »

Shadows in Bronze

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

It's the first century AD, and Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's favorite son and sometimes palace spy, has just been dealt a lousy blow from the gods: the beautiful, high-born Helena Justina has left him in the dust. So when the Emperor Vespasian calls upon him to investigate an act of treason, Falco is more than ready for a distraction.... Read more »

Venus in Copper

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is desperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison-though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity.Things go from bad to worse when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidentally, leaving him up against a female... Read more »

The Iron Hand of Mars

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

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 Germany is an assignment from Hades. On a... Read more »

Poseidon's Gold

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome-but his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead... Read more »

Last Act in Palmyra

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in the bestselling Falco series by Lindsey Davis. The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the chief spy... Read more »

Time to Depart

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian’s Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death “time to depart” and find exile outside the empire. Now, as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus’ operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has... Read more »

A Dying Light in Corduba

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

In this eighth mystery featuring hard-boiled Roman PI Marcus Didius Falco, Davis creates a chiaroscuro world of evil plots and dark humor, as olive oil whets a villain’s appetite for power and his taste for murder.Surprisingly, nobody is poisoned at the Society of Olive Oil Producers banquet—the attempted murder of Rome’s chief spy occurs... Read more »

Three Hands in the Fountain

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Sharing a ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Marcus Didius Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand that 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. The... Read more »

Two for the Lions

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

This tenth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco puts the tough private eye in the lions' den to investigate an extraordinary case of murder.Nothing's certain except death and taxes. Catching tax evaders for the Emperor Vespasian looks like a plum position for Marcus Didius Falco, who has teamed up with his old boss, Anacrites, the crotchety chief... Read more »

One Virgin Too Many

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

International bestselling author Lindsey Davis has done in the mystery genre what Caesar did in Gaul: came, saw, and conquered! Her innovative series put hard-boiled detective Marcus Didius Falco, “the Sam Spade of ancient Rome” (Publishers Weekly), on the mean streets of the Eternal City. Now Davis returns to AD 74 with a riveting investigation... Read more »

Ode to a Banker

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

Lindsey Davis is the internationally bestselling author who “makes Rome live” (Washington Post Book World). Funny, astute, and hard-boiled, her series detective, Marcus Didius Falco, now ventures into a new arena, the publishing world of AD 74, to prove that ars longa, vita brevis—and murder is timeless.Can a tough detective possess the soul of... Read more »

A Body in the Bathhouse

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

The thirteenth novel featuring sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that’s sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco’s own household, specifically the bathhouse—where a body turns up.Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache: building contractors. After the departure of two shady... Read more »

The Jupiter Myth

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Marcus Didius Falco is about to get involved in a nasty noir crime, involving gangsters, gladiators, and romance.For Falco, a relaxed visit to his wife Helena’s relatives in Britain suddenly turns serious. He and his family are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to... Read more »

The Accusers

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No

This novel in the acclaimed Marcus Didius Falco series finds the first-century detective confronting Roman legal forces that may just destroy him—and his family.Fresh from a trip to far-flung Londinium in Britain, Falco needs to reestablish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of two... Read more »

Scandal Takes a Holiday

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Ancient Rome’s organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco.In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the... Read more »

See Delphi and Die

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s AD 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco has achieved much in his life. He has joined the equestrian rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the woman he has been keeping time with for 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... Read more »

Saturnalia

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness-then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Marcus Didius... Read more »

Alexandria

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

In first-century-AD Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private “informer,” often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so in AD 77, Falco and his wife, Helena Justina, with others in tow, travel to Alexandria, Egypt. But... Read more »

Nemesis

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father has disappeared. They had an old feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen, the Claudii, who terrorize the neighborhood. When a mutilated corpse turns up, Falco and his friend Petronius investigate.... Read more »