Flesh Circus

The Cirque de Charnu has arrived in town. Its performers clean out demons and suicides, then move on. Jill Kismet cannot refuse them entry as long as they keep to the rules, so she watches them and waits for a reason to send them packing.

Then Cirque performers begin to die in grotesque ways. Kismet has to learn why, because the truce between her city and the troupe is fragile, and if it breaks, the whole place becomes a carnival of horror.

She has other problems running alongside it. She must set the resident hellbreed power against the Cirque to keep the performers in line. Ordinary people are suddenly needing exorcisms, and nobody can say why. Voodoo practitioners turn up murdered, and zombies are walking.

An ancient vengeance is close to being carried out, and the Cirque is close to blowing apart. This is urban fantasy with a supernatural-hunter heroine, a dark and horror-tinged tone, and several threats converging on one city. It is the fourth book in the Jill Kismet series.