Olen lukenut Kerry Greenwoodin Australiaan sijoitettua dekkarisarjaa melkoisen annoksen, mutta lukeminen tyssähti tähän kuudenteen romaaniin: Blood and circuses (Poisoned Pen Press, 2007; ISBN 978-1-59058-520-7).
Greenwood toistaa saman kaltaista reseptiä kaikissa Phryne Fisher -dekkareissa, laittaen sankarinsa milloin millaiseenkin ympäristöön, ja yllätyksiä riittää enemmän kuin dekkarien vajaan kahdensadan sivun mittaan voisi kuvitella mahtuvan. Tällä kertaa en enää jaksanut lukea, sen verran paljon saman reseptin toistaminen alkoi väsyttää.
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life has become too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at her door. Alan Lee and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrells Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in Mrs. Witherspoons irreproachable boarding house, and Miss Parkes-an ex-performer-is charged with his murder. Phryne must go deep undercover to be effective. She must abandon her name, her title, her protection, her comfort-even her clothes. She must fall off a horse twice a day until she can stay on. She must sleep in a girls tent and dine on mutton stew. And she must find some allies. Meanwhile in Melbourne, young, fresh-faced policeman Tommy Harris has to solve his own mysteries with the help of the foul-spoken harridan...
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