Cirrus@Austlit

'In the frosty Melbourne winter, milliner sleuth Catherine Kint looks for distraction in a night at the circus.

'When tragedy strikes, she and her barman Boris are drawn into a new mystery.

'As they draw back the metaphorical curtain, they’re confronted with a troop in chaos, a culture of secrecy and a family in crisis.

'Add in hula hooping thugs, a desperate suspect and a nihilistic bully and you have a recipe for carnage even Catherine can’t control.

'Oh, and then there’s Boris’ love life – send in the clowns, in Silks' (Publication summary)