Scorpions in Corinth by JM Alvey, read by Gavin Osborn

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 11:52 a.m.

b"Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2ZjEpWa\\n\\nThe Persian War is over and wealthy Athenians are looking to expand alliances overseas.\\n\\nPopular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth, to promote goodwill between the two cities. But on arrival, their guide and fixer Eumelos drops dead - a victim of poison.\\n\\nPhilocles is convinced someone is out to sabotage the play, and to find out who - and why - he must first uncover the murderer.\\n\\nBut in Corinth the ruling oligarchs seem more interested in commerce than justice. And with the city's religious brotherhoods pursuing their own vicious rivalries, asking the wrong questions could get an outsider like Philocles killed . . ."