Showing results for "Circus" in Crime Fiction

When the body of journalist Duncan Brown is found in the back of a rubbish truck, Inspector John Carlyle is thrown into the middle of a scandal that threatens to expose the corrupt links between the police, the political establishment, and the hugely powerful Zenger media group. Hunting down Brown's killer, Carlyle finds himself going head to head with his nemesis, Trevor Miller. A former police officer turned security adviser to the Prime Minister, Miller has dirty money in his pockets and other people's blood on his hands. Untouchable until now, he is prepared to kill again to protect his position.

Meet Major Bricket, an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril, Suffolk. In the past the Major's work assignments, frequently in foreign countries, have prevented him from spending much time there and as a result, there is an air of mystery around him while everyone in the village speculates on the nature of his occupation. But now the Major has retired and has come home for good in his open-topped little red sports car... and what a homecoming it is, for lying spreadeagled on his lawn in the summer sunshine is the corpse of a clown.

In einem kleinen verschlafenen Dorf in Schweden herrscht Idylle pur. Mauritz träumt von der großen weiten Welt und der hübschen Nachbarstochter Signhild. Heimlich beobachtet er ihr Haus, denn er will ihr näher kommen, ohne genau zu wissen, wie. Seine Gedanken kreisen nur um sie, so realisiert er erst spät, dass nebenan seltsame Dinge vor sich gehen, die mit der gutbürgerlichen Fassade wenig gemein haben. Und dann geschieht etwas, das die Gemeinschaft in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert: Signhilds Vater, der Uhrmacher Kekkonen, ein mürrischer, wortkarger Mann, wird im ehelichen Schlafzimmer brutal ermordet aufgefunden.

Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland’s World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces.