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Shadows of Athens

Written by: JM Alvey
Narrated by: Gavin Osborne
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443 BC and after decades of war with Persia, peace has finally come to Athens. The city is being rebuilt, and commerce and culture are flourishing.

Aspiring playwright Philocles has come home to find a man with his throat cut slumped against his front gate. Is it just a robbery gone wrong? But, if so, why didn't the thieves take the dead man's valuables? With the play that could make his name just days away, he must find out who this man is, why he has been murdered - and why the corpse was left in his doorway.

But Philocles soon realises he has been caught up in something far bigger, and there are those who don't want him looking any further....

©2019 JM Alvey (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Amateur Sleuth Historical Mystery

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