The Circus

Inspector John Carlyle, and Sergeant Joe Szyszkowski have just been called to a crime scene; a man's body is dead on the walk in front of a house and a boy inside the house has a bomb attached to his neck.  After the bomb squad ensures the boy that the bomb is fake, it explodes.  Fortunately Carlyle and Szyszkowski were not near.

Later the sergeant is called to the home of a missing fourteen year old girl, while the inspector deals with a body in a garbage truck.  It turns out that the victim in the truck had been stabbed several times.  He was also a reporter whose paper was being investigated for phone hacking.  Carlyle's commander tells him to focus on the bombing incident.

Discussing what they have found out to date with his Sergeant and WPC Hall, Carlyle learns that his old nemesis, Trevor Miller is connected to the the reporter and that the missing girl has a boyfriend who is thirty-two years old.

Later Carlyle finds himself warned about investigating the reporter's death because it has the potential to affect another investigation.  However, more deaths await throughout the investigation.  Are they linked together or not?

Author James Craig's murder mystery is full of action and intrigue.  A good read.