Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (A Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425271641 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A finalist for the 2004 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, Maia Chance is the national bestselling author of the Fairy Tale Fatal mysteries, including Cinderella Six Feet Under and Snow White Red-Handed, as well as the Discreet Retrieval Agency mystery series. candidate at the University of Washington, she is writing her dissertation on ninenteenth-century Ameri
I liked it, but Amazon Customer For my full review, check out my blog: []This book was a pleasant departure from my usual culinary-inspired cozies, though the plot was a bit convoluted and the page length was a tad too long for a cozy. I'm in a weird position; I didn't care enough for the book to read the first two books in the series, but I liked it enough to read future volumes.However, if you like fairy tale-inspired stories, you will probably love this book.. Who Is the Beastly Murderer? For years, my favorite of the Disney Princess movies has been Beauty and the Beast, so when I saw that the third in Maia Chance’s Fairytale Fatal Mysteries was Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, I was quite intrigued. Turns out, this is a fantastic addition to the series.The book opens in December of 1867, and it finds Ophelia Flax ready to use her savings to cross the ocean from France back to America. However, through a series of circumstances, she finds herself coerc. "A good time from start to finish!" according to OpenBookSociety dot com. Brought to you by OBS Reviewer DanieleBeauty, Beast, and Belladonna is the third book in the fantastic Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery series by Maia Chance, and it is a roaring good time from start to finish.American actress Ophelia Flax has made a mess of things by pretending to be someone she is not and agreeing to marry the Comte de Griffe, all in an effort to make Oxford professor, and scholar of folk tales, Gabriel Penrose jealous. She plans to break things off with the co
Praise for Snow White Red-Handed “Offering a clever twist on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, this debut historical cozy introduces an attractive, spunky heroine…and an entertaining, well-constructed plot that will satisfy fans of folklore and fairy tales.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Deliciously Gothic, intriguingly different, this story plunges us into the world of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, where the greed and evil are all too real, and everyone has something to hide.”—Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author “Chance’s lively debut, the first in a new cozy series…will whet the reader’s appetite for Ophelia and Prue’s next misadventure.”—Publishers Weekly “Maia Chance has woven a magical tale of murder, mystery and mayhem.”—MyShelf
She intends to disengage from her feral fiancé at his winter hunting party—until Penrose, his lovely new fiancée, and a stagecoach of stranded travelers arrive at the comte’s sprawling château. Soon she can’t tell the boars from the bores.When one of the guests is found clawed and bloody in the orangerie, Ophelia is determined to solve the murder before everyone starts believing the local version of Beauty and the Beast. But until the snows melt, she can’t trust her eyes—or he