falco, marcus didius (fictional character)

When human hands are discovered in Rome's aqueducts, Marcus Didios Falco and his partner Petronius Longus suspect a serial killer is at large, and together, the two men try to find him before he can strike again.

Informer Marcus Didius Falco's already complicated life becomes even more so when six-year-old Gaia Laelia, a candidate to become a Vestal Virgin, comes to him complaining that someone in her influential family is trying to kill her.

While tracking down a runaway circus musician, Falco and his mistress are unjustly accused of a murder and join a traveling theater group to avoid arrest, unaware that the real killer is a member of the group and is looking to kill again.

Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and investigator in first-century Rome, is commissioned by Emperor Vespasian to find an important German prisoner who has escaped into the chaos of the Saturnalia festivities, leaving a decapitated corpse behind, and his job becomes more complicated when his married brother-in-law, a former lover of the fugitive, goes missing at the same time.