Snow White Red-Handed

By: Maia Chance

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm....

1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if her fast-talking ways might have been too hasty. The vast grounds contain the suspected remains of Snow White's cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when her millionaire boss turns up dead - poisoned by an apple - the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene.

To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, she'll have to break a cunning killer's spell before her own time runs out.

©2014 Maia Chance (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Not Great

I was really hoping from the description that this would be smart and funny, but it was neither of those things. The characters couldn't make simple deductions that a child could have made, and they collected and tampered with evidence without ever suggesting their existence to the investors. With no credibility whatsoever, anything they discovered would have been dismissed as forged to deflect suspicion. Besides that, there was a ton of random crap thrown in to muddy the waters and draw the story out. The actual murderer didn't make any sense, their motive was flimsy at best.