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Title: Snow White Red-Handed

Author: Maia Chance

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Members Reviews:

Fairytales could be real...

Ms Chance immerses us into the story at an attention grabbing point where our protagonist, Miss Ophelia Flax, acts her way (so to speak) into a job as a lady's maid in a scene that captures the societal disparities of 19th century Europe. Ophelia is a strong character. Her profession as an actress comes in very handy to enable her charm her way in and out of trouble. The lengths to which she's willing to go to save her colleague show how loyal she is. These endeared me to her. I must confess, I took a peek at the blurbs of books 2 and 3 in the course of my read and discovered that Ophelia Flax is also the main character in those, which told me there probably wouldn't be as much romance as I would have hoped for. However, the mystery and the twists more than make up for it.

I enjoyed the array of characters and places, and the premise that fairytales stem from true events. Much to my frustration, I couldn't guess who the killer was until the moment where anyone else would have guessed it.

Ms Chance's writing is crisp with bits of humour thrown in here and there to make the book a delightful journey from beginning to end. I definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a new angle to a classic story.

Fun page turner, just don't analyze deeply

Snow White Red-Handed is fun & fast-paced, comparable to a summer popcorn-action movie. Almost from the beginning there were red herrings & little mysteries that I couldn't wait to get answers to, such as who almost every character really was going to turn out to be. The main mystery of who killed Mr. Coop was pleasantly not one of those so ridiculously obvious it ruins your enjoyment of the book.

The set-up is purely for the sake of the convenience of getting to the plot. Nothing grounded, realistic, or deep here - I was not surprised to find out the author is a romance writer. The two main characters, Ophelia & Prue, just happen to be on a one way trip to Europe when they happen to unrealistically lose their jobs then happen to fall into their new ones that take them to Germany. They also seem to barely know each other yet be devoted like sisters just - because. (Actually it's Ophelia who is rather obsessively devoted while Prue seems strangely nonchalant.