The Menagerie Locket (Large Print Edition)

Step right up-where bright lights hide darker truths.

In 1979, Fuchini's traveling circus rolls into the outskirts of Los Angeles with its menagerie, midway glitter, and a sideshow family the world calls freaks. But when two beloved performers are found brutally murdered-and the killer leaves behind clues that don't feel human-the circus becomes a locked world of suspects, secrets, and superstition.

Officer Mick Cooley knows the circus only as a nuisance call waiting to happen. Then the case drags him under the big top-into roustabout rivalries, backstage grudges, and a community that protects its own at all costs. When Cooley crosses paths with Jewel, a sharp, fearless teen with an obsession for the occult, their uneasy alliance turns into a race for answers the department doesn't want: not every crime scene can be explained by fingerprints, and not every witness is alive.

As séances, spirit boards, and a whispered name-Zozo-begin to surface again and again, the investigation spirals into something older than the circus itself. To stop the violence, Cooley and Jewel must dig into the show's buried history before the next act becomes another body.

A dark circus mystery with paranormal horror, Fuchini's Family Circus pulls you behind the curtain-where the family is real, the nightmares are hungry, and the show always goes on.