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Finished A Murder in Thebes by Paul Doherty, 2nd in his Mysteries of Alexander the Great series (the 1st round of it anyway, it looks like there were two such series; one written pseudonymously, the other not) set in ancient Greece post-Macedonian conquest, which I got as part of Headline's 99 cent sale on selected titles of his (currently still ongoing, last I checked). Most of the rest in this particular setting were at the somewhat higher $2.99-$3.99 CAD price point, so I held off on splurging, but I think I'll have to get the rest of these.
Somewhat to my surprise, this had actual Alexander the Great in it, in a major supporting role and actually participating in investigative and deduction scenes, although the bulk of the amateur sleuthing was done by Miriam, one of a pair of Jewish Israelite companions who are apparently spies for him at the behest of his mother Queen Olympias.
Anyway, this was fairly well done in a rather light casual style, with a nice mix of history and mythology, as someone uses superstition surrounding one of its famous legends to try to undermine Alexander's conquest of the city of Thebes, and also for murder. And there was a bonus mystery in the form of a tricky puzzler about how to extract a certain artifact from a booby-trapped locale using only the materials already present, whose solution is nicely foreshadowed a couple of times in a way that you gloss over while reading, but makes perfect sense once you see it.
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