The Rapunzel Murders

The Rapunzel Murders
Author: Julia Vaughan
Publisher: Cahill Davis Publishing
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2024-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1915307147

Three dead girls A wild country estate Whispers of witchcraft Deep in the Shropshire countryside the Quartermaine estate, with its wild woods, has always been a source of myths and legends. But when the bodies of three young girls are found in the folly, DCI Kath Fortune and her cold case team need answers. Psychic Lane Petreus is called on to help discover the secrets that the matriarch of the manor is determined to keep hidden but when Lane's life is threatened, Kath must use all the means at her disposal to save Lane and solve the case.

The Rapunzel Act

The Rapunzel Act
Author: Abi Silver
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1785632469

When Breakfast TV host and nation's darling, Rosie Harper, is found brutally murdered at home, suspicion falls on her spouse, formerly international football star, Danny &‘walks on water' Mallard, now living out of the public eye as trans woman, Debbie. Not only must Debbie challenge the hard evidence against her, including her blood-drenched glove at the scene of the crime, she must also contend with the nation's prejudices, as the trial is broadcast live, turning it into a public spectacle. For someone trying to live their life without judgment, it might just be too much to bear.Legal duo Judith Burton and Constance Lamb are subjected to unyielding scrutiny as they strive to defend their most famous client yet.

Killer Hair

Killer Hair
Author: Ellen Byerrum
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451209481

"Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian delves into her latest mystery when hot new stylist Angie Woods supposedly commits suicide, but Lacey believes otherwise and teams up with a gorgeous ex-cop to find the truth, an investigation that leads her to a congressional staffer. Original.

Rapunzel

Rapunzel
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-01-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781782503828

The much-loved Grimm's fairy tale that inspired Tangled, going back to its roots

Murder She Did

Murder She Did
Author: Gillian Roberts
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2014-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611876761

Gillian Roberts has been recognized and presented with multiple awards for her Amanda Pepper mystery series. Now, collected here for the first time, are 14 short stories by this bestselling mystery author. From cats to marriages and dogs to dentists, these stories cover a wide range of themes and all are infused with Roberts’ well-known sense of humor. Pulled from out-of-print anthologies and recovered from magazines, these stories represent 25 amazing years in the writing career of one of the mystery genre’s most-beloved authors.

Tangled Up in Murder

Tangled Up in Murder
Author: Elle Hartford
Publisher: Phoenix & Kelpie Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this magical mix-up of fairy tales and murder, Little Red Riding Hood solves the mystery at the heart of Rapunzel . . . How do we stand up for the ones we love? Alchemist and shopkeeper Red is looking forward to her town’s Halloween festival, but the incessant rain is putting a damper on her spirits. Not to mention the fact that her long-term partner, Luca, has been acting strangely of late. And in case that wasn’t enough, police officer Thorn shows up with a very mysterious note about a kidnapped child . . . Red does her best to help Officer Thorn analyze the anonymous note, but no children have been kidnapped from Belville–for nearly two hundred years. Just as the town is ready to dismiss the note as a prank, a stranger runs down from the mountain, injured and crying “murder.” Where did the stranger come from? Who has been killed? And was that anonymous note perhaps a century or two too late? With Halloween spooks and heavy thunderstorms looming on the horizon, Red and her friends race to help unravel the mystery. But for a cold case, this one is hitting very close to home. Red will need all her alchemical know-how and more to solve this knotty problem!

Murder in the English Department

Murder in the English Department
Author: Valerie Miner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497613000

An assistant professor’s fight against campus harassment soon becomes a fight for her life in this “totally compelling and utterly modern mystery” (Judy Grahn, American Book Award–winning author). Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan’s blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan’s bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead in his office, everyone suspects activist Nan. But she is innocent. And she knows who the murderer is. A fast-paced, nontraditional mystery that places a strong woman in a battle for her innocence and principles, Murder in the English Department is a must-read for academics and mystery lovers alike.

Just off the Path

Just off the Path
Author: Weston Sullivan
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishers
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0998471461

Hansel never asked to be a hero. He never wanted to fall in love with Rapunzel, Queen of the East. He didn’t ask to be raised by Gothel the Wretch, and he certainly never wanted to be credited for her arrest. But more than any of that, Hansel never wanted to lie: but he did. He lied about everything. He thought that he was done with it all when he and his sister Gretel retreated into the woods to reclaim their land, but he should have known better. Years later, Rapunzel’s guards knock at his door, and they say the words he hoped that he would never hear: Gothel has escaped. As he and Gretel take refuge inside Rapunzel’s castle in the eastern capitol of Hildebrand, Hansel is thrust back into everything he never wanted in the first place: his lies, his legend, and his lust. In the wake of it all, he knows that Gothel has escaped to finish what she started. She is out to make sure that the Sleeping Beauty never wakes, and that Grimm suffocates under her blanket of thorn and vine. In order to find Gothel and save the kingdom, Hansel and Gretel must look for fact in a land of fairy-tale by following a trail of grisly murders, a girl in a red cape, and a powerful little man who can’t stand the sound of his own name. As they search for answers, Hansel finds that he isn’t the only liar in Grimm, and that there may be a traitor among them of royal proportion.

Hidden

Hidden
Author: Kaylin Lee
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977538444

Young assassin Rapunzel is the most powerful absorbent mage alive, so strong she can drain the life of a grown man with a single brush of her finger. But the power means little when her every move is controlled by her mistress. For twelve long years, Rapunzel has known nothing beyond a nightmarish life of captivity, murder, and failed escape attempts. She spends her days locked away in a tower, dreaming of a different life, and her nights in the city, forced to use her terrible power for her mistress's political ambitions. Rapunzel knows she's a monster. She shouldn't exist. She doesn't deserve to exist. But her desperate hope for freedom just won't go away. Then a mysterious foreigner climbs into her tower seeking refuge. He should be terrified of Rapunzel, but he wants to help set her free. What kind of madman would ever want to help someone like Rapunzel? And who is Rapunzel, really? A woman, or a killer? -- Hidden: Rapunzel's Story is the second book in the Destined series, a series of overlapping fairy tale retellings all set in the same magical world. Each story is self-contained, with its own protagonist and satisfying happily-ever-after, but they also tell an over-arching story.

The Demon

The Demon
Author: Brent Yamamoto
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452041466