{"product_id":"9781398543607-little-red-death","title":"Little Red Death","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mind-bending murder mystery like nothing you've read before - enter the woods, if you dare .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Once upon a time' gets a whole new twist in this bold, high-concept thriller - Stuart Turton meets Angela Carter, with a touch of \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press is having a field day with what they have named the Grimm Ripper Murders.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But as the bodies stack up, Lyla’s whole world is about to flip on its head. Because the killer’s bloody trail stretches deep into her own origin story, and when she discovers the truth, nothing will ever be the same again.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFaced with the fact that everything she knows is fiction, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own if she’s going to turn the final page on the killings . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR LITTLE RED DEATH:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A mysterious serial killer is obsessed with fairy tales - and not the happy-ever-after kind. Can DI Lyla Rondell put aside her personal trauma to discover the identity of this most creative of murderers? \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a horrifying ride into the deepest corners of folklore. An exquisite puzzle of a crime thriller, it revels in the shadows, as reality is savagely entwined with the very roots of storytelling itself . Prepare to be spellbound because A. K. Benedict is a master of this darkest art’ \u003cb\u003eJanice Hallett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘A clever, clever, thoroughly meta, extraordinarily enjoyable modern fairy-tale with layer after layer of intrigue and a breathless pace, I loved it, especially the delicious happy ever after’ \u003cb\u003eAndrea Mara\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Hugely inventive and mind-bendingly clever’ \u003cb\u003eClaire McGowan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘A fairytale trickster of a book, witty, sly and wickedly clever; it gripped me from first page to last. This is the thriller you'd get if Angela Carter kidnapped Stephen King and made him write with toadstool ink’ \u003cb\u003eKit Whitfield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Some passages read like Agatha Christie, some like Angela Carter - but all of it is written with the smoothness and intelligence that is AK Benedict’s signature style. With charm and chills often on the same page, this is a serpentine novel that refuses to give up its secrets until it’s good and ready’ \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Bond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'It's mad, bad and dangerous to read' \u003cb\u003eGareth Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55563240046966,"sku":"9781398543607","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33979890.jpg?v=1753427217","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398543607-little-red-death","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}