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Little Red Death

by Alexandra Benedict

Fairy tales become crime-scene clues

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Fairy tales become crime-scene clues

A decades-old disappearance gives DI Lyla Rondell a personal stake in a new investigation: a woman’s abduction echoes Cinderella, while earlier clues connect Lyla’s missing friend to Snow White. As further deaths draw on familiar tales and leave messages directed at Lyla, the case links present-day crimes to the unresolved past she has carried for twenty-five years. The fairy-tale references serve as both a pattern for the investigation and a thread tying the cases to Lyla herself, bringing storytelling into the machinery of a psychological crime thriller.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of psychological crime thrillers.
  • For readers interested in mysteries built around fairy-tale motifs.
  • For readers drawn to investigations with a detective’s unresolved personal history.

Themes

Fairy tales and crimeUnsolved disappearancePersonal historyStorytelling and manipulation

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Book overview

In this eerie crime thriller from USA Today bestselling author Alexandra Benedict, one woman is tasked with investigating a series of disturbing deaths that resemble classic fairytales, only to find out that the killings have much more to do with the facts of her own past than with fiction. . .

This is once upon a time, like you've never read it before

For twenty-five years, DI Lyla Rondell has lived with one unsolved case: her best friend's disappearance. The only clue--a poisoned apple--earned it the nickname "Snow White." It's haunted her ever since.

Now, when a woman is taken in a crime that has striking similarities to the story of Cinderella, Lyla is charged with investigating. And as more murders take place, each one based on a different classic fairytale, Lyla is determined to finally uncover the truth.

But these deaths are far from the stuff of bedtime stories. And worse, it becomes increasingly clear that these killings, and the messages left within them, are addressed directly to Lyla.

As the murders get more gruesome, Lyla becomes entangled in a web of crime and storytelling that goes far deeper than she ever could have imagined. Because someone out there is pulling her strings, and to turn the final page on the killings, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own.

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