Gretel (yes, that Gretel) is a plump 35 year old woman, still living with her brother Hans and working as a private investigator.
She has just received a new case….while it’s nothing glamorous, it is still a case. Gretel is charged with finding three abducted cats. Not three missing cats….three stolen kitties! Her client assures Gretel that the cats would never just run away, someone must have taken them but she has no idea why.
Reluctantly Gretel accepts….she feels that her skills would be better suited for something better, but she takes the case anyway.
In the mean time, the small Bavarian town of Gesternstadt is about to be rocked to its foundations by a murder. The workshop of a local cart maker is burnt to the ground and Gretel’s nemesis, Kapitan Strudel, is called in to investigate.
Gretel pauses to greet Strudel and see what she can find out about the fire, when she discovers a body in the ashes…..a body that is missing a finger and holding a bell from one of her client’s cats! Could it be coincidence? Did the cats die in the fire? Did the person die trying to save the cats?
Continue reading “Review: Once Upon a Crime (A Brothers Grimm Mystery #2) by P. J. Brackston”
Lori Shepherd loves everything about her quaint town of Finch in the Cotswold country of England.
The Lit Bitch 