<p><b>The Circus Lights: A thrilling British mystery from master of the genre Jack Benton and featuring private investigator John 'Slim' Hardy in an adventure with twists up to the last page.</b></p>

<p>One autumn night in 1992, young trapeze artist Maria’s circus career is cut short by a career-ending fall. Later investigation reveals sabotage, but by then the ramshackle Southern Cross Circus has folded, and it’s garrulous ring master and owner fled to Spain.</p>

<p>And the prime suspect in the possible crime, Maria’s boyfriend, has disappeared without trace, never to be seen again.</p>

<p>After a chance encounter with Maria decades afterwards, private investigator John “Slim” Hardy sets out to uncover the truth.</p>

<p>But what starts out as a minor investigation soon spirals out of control into a case of multiple murder, and a series of events that still leave their mark more than thirty years later.</p>

<p>In the glare of the circus lights, Slim could be facing his most complex investigation yet.</p>