Murder in Purple and Gold

Murder in Purple and Gold
	Cover of 1st UK hardback edition 2026
Author	Lindsey Davis
Series	Flavia Albia
Genre	historical fiction, crime fiction
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date	2 April 2026
Publication place	UK
ISBN	9781399747981
Preceded by	There Will Be Bodies

Last updated January 02, 2026

Murder in Purple and Gold is a forthcoming historical crime novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the fourrteenth in her Flavia Albia series. It will be published in the UK on 2 April 2026 by Hodder & Stoughton ( ISBN 9781399747981),^[1]

The book is set in Rome, in the "dangerous and glamourous world of charioteers", with the story starting when Flavia finds the body of dead charioteer Lepos near the Circus Maximus.^[1]

The cover of the first UK hardback edition shows a knife with a bloodstained curved point, lying on bloodstained purple fabric on what might be a large pot or shard.^[1]

References

1 2 3 "Murder in Purple and Gold [publisher's announcement]". Hodder & Stoughton. 1 October 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2026.

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[hs-1] 1 2 3 "Murder in Purple and Gold [publisher's announcement]". Hodder & Stoughton. 1 October 2025. Retrieved 1 January 2026.

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v t e Marcus Didius Falco and Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis
Falco series	The Silver Pigs (1989) Shadows in Bronze (1990) Venus in Copper (1991) The Iron Hand of Mars (1992) Poseidon's Gold (1993) Last Act in Palmyra (1994) Time to Depart (1995) A Dying Light in Corduba (1996) Three Hands in the Fountain (1997) Two for the Lions (1998) One Virgin Too Many (1999) Ode to a Banker (2000) A Body in the Bath House (2001) The Jupiter Myth (2002) The Accusers (2003) Scandal Takes a Holiday (2004) See Delphi and Die (2005) Saturnalia (2007) Alexandria (2009) Nemesis (2010)
Albia series	The Ides of April (2013) Enemies at Home (2014) Deadly Election (2015) The Graveyard of the Hesperides (2016) The Third Nero (2017) Pandora's Boy (2018) A Capitol Death (2019) The Grove of the Caesars (2020) A Comedy of Terrors (2021) Desperate Undertaking (2022) Fatal Legacy (2023) Death on the Tiber (2024) There Will Be Bodies (2025) Murder in Purple and Gold (2026)
Related works	The Course of Honour (1997) Falco: The Official Companion (2010) Master and God (2012) "The Spook Who Spoke Again" (2015) "Vesuvius By Night" (2017) "Invitation to Die" (2019)