Little Red Death
A mind-bending murder mystery like nothing you've read before - enter the woods, if you dare . . .
A. K. Benedict
- ONCE
- UPON
- A
- TIME
- LIKE
- YOU'VE
- NEVER
- READ
- IT
- BEFORE
- .
- .
- .DI
- Lyla
- Rondell
- is
- on
- the
- case
- of
- a
- lifetime.
- Tasked
- with
- investigating
- a
- series
- of
- perplexing
- deaths,
- the
- only
- lead
- she
- has
- is
- that
- each
- appears
- to
- be
- based
- on
- a
- different
- classic
- fairy
- tale.
- Far
- from
- the
- stuff
- of
- bedtime
- stories,
- the
- press
- is
- having
- a
- field
- day
- with
- what
- they
- have
- named
- the
- Grimm
- Ripper
- Murders.But
- as
- the
- bodies
- stack
- up,
- Lyla’s
- whole
- world
- is
- about
- to
- flip
- on
- its
- head.
- Because
- the
- killer’s
- bloody
- trail
- stretches
- deep
- into
- her
- own
- origin
- story,
- and
- when
- she
- discovers
- the
- truth,
- nothing
- will
- ever
- be
- the
- same
- again.Faced
- with
- the
- fact
- that
- everything
- she
- knows
- is
- fiction,
- Lyla
- will
- have
- to
- take
- a
- little
- creative
- license
- of
- her
- own
- if
- she’s
- going
- to
- turn
- the
- final
- page
- on
- the
- killings
- .
- .
- .PRAISE
- FOR
- LITTLE
- RED
- DEATH:'A
- mysterious
- serial
- killer
- is
- obsessed
- with
- fairy
- tales
- -
- and
- not
- the
- happy-ever-after
- kind.
- Can
- DI
- Lyla
- Rondell
- put
- aside
- her
- personal
- trauma
- to
- discover
- the
- identity
- of
- this
- most
- creative
- of
- murderers?
- Little
- Red
- Death
- is
- a
- horrifying
- ride
- into
- the
- deepest
- corners
- of
- folklore.
- An
- exquisite
- puzzle
- of
- a
- crime
- thriller,
- it
- revels
- in
- the
- shadows,
- as
- reality
- is
- savagely
- entwined
- with
- the
- very
- roots
- of
- storytelling
- itself
- .
- .
- .
- Prepare
- to
- be
- spellbound
- because
- A.
- K.
- Benedict
- is
- a
- master
- of
- this
- darkest
- art’
- Janice
- Hallett‘A
- clever,
- clever,
- thoroughly
- meta,
- extraordinarily
- enjoyable
- modern
- fairy-tale
- with
- layer
- after
- layer
- of
- intrigue
- and
- a
- breathless
- pace,
- I
- loved
- it,
- especially
- the
- delicious
- happy
- ever
- after’
- Andrea
- Mara‘Hugely
- inventive
- and
- mind-bendingly
- clever’
- Claire
- McGowan‘A
- fairytale
- trickster
- of
- a
- book,
- witty,
- sly
- and
- wickedly
- clever;
- it
- gripped
- me
- from
- first
- page
- to
- last.
- This
- is
- the
- thriller
- you'd
- get
- if
- Angela
- Carter
- kidnapped
- Stephen
- King
- and
- made
- him
- write
- with
- toadstool
- ink’
- Kit
- Whitfield‘Some
- passages
- read
- like
- Agatha
- Christie,
- some
- like
- Angela
- Carter
- -
- but
- all
- of
- it
- is
- written
- with
- the
- smoothness
- and
- intelligence
- that
- is
- AK
- Benedict’s
- signature
- style.
- With
- charm
- and
- chills
- often
- on
- the
- same
- page,
- this
- is
- a
- serpentine
- novel
- that
- refuses
- to
- give
- up
- its
- secrets
- until
- it’s
- good
- and
- ready’
- Charlotte
- Bond'It's
- mad,
- bad
- and
- dangerous
- to
- read'
- Gareth Rubin
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