Murder Circus

by Michael Litchfield

Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

A journalist for many years, Michael Litchfield wrote for the Daily Mail and Sunday Express. He also worked for Time, as an investigative journalist exposing mafia corruption, which resulted in several contracts being taken out on his life. After changing his name and stowing away to the Bahamas, Michael returned to England and has been a parliamentary correspondent for many newspapers. Robert Hale also published his novels Bullet For An Encore, Last Bus to the Grave and Deadline.

Reviews

[Mick Scrimshaw · Rating 1 out of 5]

A whodunit crime book from the eighties but not a very good one I’m afraid. The books starts with a vicious sexually motivated murder followed by another couple of murders as the murderer tries to keep his identity hidden. The main detective McQueen isn’t the best character and the author hints at his dark-side and own villainess tendencies but this is never properly explored in a way that give him a strong and unique character that might have made him more interesting.

The plot itself is rather mundane and the eventual climax and revealing of the guilty party replies on advice given the police by a psychologist who might have made a much better protagonist or leading character rather than just the few pages he took to advise the police.

Overall rather pedestrian and slow although an interesting flash back to values and life in the early eighties, not least the relationships between men and woman.