A FATAL FESTIVAL (Alethea, The Circus Sleuth Book 3)

Beautiful and warm Florida makes for an excellent winter quarter, especially when there’s a giant circus festival on that brings together performers and audiences from across the country. Of course, things start coming apart quickly, with Alethea almost being impaled by a throwing knife – another seeming coincidence that makes America give her stories about curses and sinister intent.

The sinister intent is apparently supplied by a gang of saboteurs that start sabotaging Virgil’s Circus and the Circus Pandaemonium, all on top of a mysterious rivalry between them that Virgil Ardelean himself claims to know nothing about. When security seems to be unable to resolve the situation and finally someone ends up dead, things look grim.

Of course, Agent Holden Westley is there for a last-minute rescue, as the first member of his special ‘Circus Crime’ elite unit. As the mystery of Alethea’s close encounter with the knife unfolds, it takes her closer to the saboteurs from an unanticipated direction – and she learns to look at the people around her with different eyes.