Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is known for The Course of Honour, the true story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress Caenis, and for her twenty volume mystery series featuring Roman detective, Falco. Master and God set the scene for Albia in the paranoid reign of Domitian. She has also written Rebels and Traitors, an epic novel set in the English Civil War and Commonwealth; this year she contributes to the Quick Read series, with A Cruel Fate, also set in the Civil War.
She has won the CWA Historical Dagger, Dagger in the Library, and a Sherlock for Falco as Best Detective. She has been Honorary President of the Classical Association, Chair of the Crimewriters’ Association and Chair of the Society of Authors. In 2010 the city of Rome gave her the Premio Colosseo, awarded `for enhancing the image of Rome` and in 2011 she was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.
Most recently she was the inaugural winner of the Barcelona Historical Fiction Award.
