The Athenian Mysteries
Historical-noir thrillers set in Classical Athens. Start with Murder at the Agora and follow a conspiracy that shadows the city through power, philosophy, and crime.
Murder at the Agora
Book I — Where democracy is born … and stained with its first blood.
A public speech. A sudden collapse. Athens wants a god to blame. Nikandros reads the clues in daylight and refuses silence.
Case solved. The conspiracy awakens in Book II.
The Shadows of the Acropolis
Book II — Marble rises; men fall.
A rope cut, an owl token, silver from Corinth — and a city that would rather worship silence than truth.
Case solved. The network tightens in Book III.
Blood at the Symposium
Book III — A feast of minds and a cup of poison.
Callias’s banquet gathers the city’s brightest. By dawn, Damon is dead, and one guest knows the cup wasn’t meant for him.
Case solved. The hidden network endures — and threatens what Athens calls truth.
The Oracle’s Curse
Book IV — Faith tested, prophecy twisted, truth on trial.
Athens, 448 BC. When a respected envoy dies after consulting the Oracle at Delphi, the city trembles. Was it divine will — or manipulation by men?
In a world where belief is power, Nikandros must expose corruption at Delphi without defying the gods themselves.
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