Lichfield Festival: LINDSEY DAVIS – Murder in Purple and Gold

Birmingham-based crime writing superstar, Lindsey Davis, returns to the Festival with her new ‘Flavia Albia’ mystery. When Flavia 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. In a city where the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing, 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 is always just one race away…