James Craig hasn’t put a foot wrong with this addictive London-based crime series featuring the morally minded, enigmatic, Inspector Carlyle. The Circus is the fourth in the series and Carlyle is arms deep in a corruption scandal involving police and politicians after the discovery of the body of a journalist. Gripping, raunchy, urban, crime fiction at its best.
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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 - having failed once already to dispose of Carlyle he is not prepared to slip up again...
James Craig worked previously as a journalist and TV producer. Born in Scotland, he has lived and worked in London for thirty years. He supports Liverpool FC.