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The Ringmaster

By: Vanda Symon
Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
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Summary

DC Sam Shephard is stationed in Dunedin CIB, a newbie at the bottom of the pecking order.

When a young university student is found battered to death and floating in the Leith, she is pushed to one side by her boss and only given grunt work. Despite this, it is Sam who discovers that there has been a string of unsolved murders on the South Island, and that each has occurred while a travelling circus was in town - the same circus that is presently in Dunedin.

Angry at being marginalised, Sam decides to work alone, ignoring the attempts of her friends to help her, and keeping her lines of enquiries secret. But her headstrong attitude, and the fact that she is human and makes mistakes, put her and those she loves in very real danger....
©2019 Vanda Symon (P)2019 Aurora Audio Books
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Not very subtle

The characters are pretty stereotypical, not subtle at all.
All through the story Sam is annoyed, angry or raging, with only occasional spells of calm or terrified. Her boss is a baddie who has it in for her.
Her boyfriend is pure Kiwi beefcake, handsome, fit, clever and natural is besotted by her.
The circus manager is bitter and grouchy towards Sam till he changes overnight and insists that she be involved in the investigation.
Her aunt is a saint.
Her uncle is too..until… suddenly.. ..a very improbable ending.


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