Murder in Purple and Gold - Lindsey Davis

Category: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Rome Flavia Albia

Written by Lindsey Davis
Read by Jane Collingwood
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Murder in Purple and Gold
By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
Release date
02-04-2026
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
11 hrs and 56 mins
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Categories
Literature & Fiction

When Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome’s famous Circus Maximus, she is about to embark on one of her most dangerous and complicated cases.

Rome and the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing. Lepo was the rising star of the Purples, a new team created by the psychotic Emperor Domitian with big money backing. Suspicion immediately falls on Lepo’s greatest rival, Agathon, a young man emerging from a rival team, the Golds. Convinced of his guilt, a lynch mob is hunting him.

The Golds faction hire Flavia to clear their man’s name. He appears to have an alibi for the night of the murder but, as Flavia soon finds out, nothing is as it seems in the dangerous and glamorous world of the charioteers in which fortunes can be won or lost in seconds and violent death in the arena is always just one race away.©2026 Lindsey Davis (P)2026 Hodder & Stoughton Limited