Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Share a couple or more sentences from the book you’re currently reading.

For today’s teaser I’ve chosen the opening sentences of Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club, which is the first in his series of Isabel Dalhousie novels. Isabel is a philosopher and the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics; and also an amateur sleuth. She is a great favourite of mine.

Isabel Dalhousie saw the young man fall from the edge of the upper circle, from the gods. His flight was so sudden and short, and it was less than a second that she saw him, hair tousled, upside down, his shirt and jacket up around his chest so that his midriff was exposed. And then striking the edge of the grand circle, he disappeared headfirst towards the stalls below. (page 1)

Was it an accident or was he pushed?