Vendor
	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English
Categories
Thriller / suspense fiction

ONLY PRETTY DAMNED

Niall Howell

Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season.

When Toby, former trapeze artist turned disgruntled clown, begins seeing Gloria, a young and beautiful dancer longing for a bigger role under the spotlight, his hardboiled past resurfaces. Can he live without Genevieve, his ex-trapeze partner and lover? What ruthless actions will he take to regain his position as the headlining act? And will Toby's past repeat itself as he tries to untangle the ropes that bind him and take a leap to roaring applause?

Only Pretty Damned combines the pace and tone of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice with the postwar world of Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show On Earth.

Niall Howell teaches high school English and is currently working on his second novel.

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Book Published 2019-04-01 by NeWest Press

Comments

Only Pretty Damned is a stark, powerful noir, steeped in the stifling heat of the American South and building slowly, inexorably, to a boil.

"This is a gritty novel that takes noir seriously."

Howell has penned a slow-burning piece of crime fiction, where Rowland's grimy circus serves as a microcosm of the world at largea place where unlikable characters are groomed to make a killing, whether inside the tent or out.