The year is 1985, and O' Hare's Travelling Circus is touring the country.
Their spectacular acts mesmerize audiences everywhere, with entertaining clowns, high-flying acrobats, a muscular strongman and a dare-devil motorcycle stuntman, to name a few.
They also have Psychic Sheila - resident fortune-teller and agony aunt - who stumbles through life one disastrous romantic interlude at a time. Of course, no close-knit group would be complete without its fair share of secrets, and who better to uncover them than Sheila, with her sixth sense and natural nose for a good mystery.
But for some members of the clan, time is running out... and the race to uncover the biggest secret of all is on.
This cozy mystery will have you laughing and crying in equal measure, and might even prompt a visit to the circus.
Praise from readers:
★★★★★ - "I was hooked from the first till the last page. What a wonderful book."
★★★★★ - "Another wonderful story from A.J. Griffiths-Jones. She captures the heart and soul of small traveling circus life and hands it right up to you."
Having been brought up in a small village in the English countryside, A.J.Griffiths-Jones has plenty of happy memories from which to source information for her novels. However, it's been a long journey. Spanning three decades and two continents, her career & personal life have taken some incredible turns, finally bringing A.J. back to her roots and a promising writing career. As a young woman, A.J. left the rolling Shropshire hills behind her & headed to London, where she became fascinated in the world of Victorian crime & in particular the unsolved case of 'Jack the Ripper'. Having read every book available to her on the subject, she started her own mini investigation which eventually led to her first non-fiction publication. However, there was a long period of research necessary before A.J. could finally complete her first book and during the intervening years she relocated to China with her husband and took up a post as Language Training Manager for an International bank. As the need for English grew within the company, A.J's responsibilities expanded until she was liasing between two cities and nearly three thousand employees. An initial two year move soon turned into a decade and the couple found themselves in the vast metropolis of Shanghai for a much longer period than they had firstly intended. Using their Asian home as a base, A.J. and her better half travelled extensively during their time overseas, visiting New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and many provinces within China itself At weekends they would jump into their Jeep and set off to remote villages and mountains, armed with little more than a compass and a map set in Chinese characters, photographing their trip as they explored. Eventually the desire to move back to the U.K. prevailed and the couple returned to their native land in 2012. It was at this point that A.J. made the decision to fulfill her lifetime ambition of becoming an author.
