Fatal Legacy is a historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the eleventh in her Flavia Albia series.

[2] The plot, set in Rome in AD 90, involves, amongst other aspects of Roman life: an unpaid bar bill; a missing will and codicil; a rabbit farm; an orchard planted variously with walnuts, apricots and cherries; freed slaves; suspicious deaths; and feuding families with labyrinthine family trees.

[1] The cover of the first American edition shows a woman holding a large dagger behind her back, and an armoured Roman soldier, inside a building.

[2] Writing in The Globe and Mail, Margaret Cannon called the novel "as light as air and as witty and amusing as Davis’s finest Falco books of yore".

[5] Publishers Weekly wrote that it was "more low-key than past entries, but no less gripping",[6] while Kirkus Reviews called it "dark mystery encased in a rich portrait of ancient Rome.