ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOUVE 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, Lylas whole world is about to flip on its head. Because the killers 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 shes going to turn the final page on the killings...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 HALLETTA clever, clever, thoroughly meta, extraordinarily enjoyable modern fairytale with layer after layer of intrigue and a breathless pace, I loved it, especially the delicious happy ever after ANDREA MARAHugely inventive and mindbendingly clever CLAIRE McGOWANA fairytale trickster of a book, witty, sly and wickedly clever it gripped me from first page to last.This is the thriller youd get if Angela Carter kidnapped Stephen King and made him write with toadstool ink KIT WHITFIELDSome passages...

Binding: Paperback;384 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd; Classification: FF; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 26

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