P.J. Brackston. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60598-672-2
Bestseller Brackston (The Witch’s Daughter) melds folktale whimsy with a sardonic adult voice in the rollicking first of a new series set in 1776 Bavaria. Gretel, now grown up and living with witless older brother Hans in provincial Gesternstadt,...
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P.J. Brackston. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60598-812-2
In Brackston’s whimsical second Brothers Grimm–inspired novel (after Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints), a grown-up Gretel, of Hansel and Gretel fame, has set up shop as a PI in 1776 Bavaria and is eager for paying clients so that she...
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P.J. Brackston. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60598-946-4
Brackston’s uneven third Brothers Grimm mystery (after 2015’s Once upon a Crime) takes intrepid investigator Gretel of Bavaria and her loyal but not particularly bright brother, Hans, to sea. Capt. Tobias Ziegler, who runs the cruise ship Arabella,...
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P.J. Brackston. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-68177-530-2
Bestseller Brackston’s comic mystery series set in a Grimm fairy tales version of 18th-century Bavaria hits its stride with this often hilarious fourth entry (after 2016’s The Case of the Fickle Mermaid). In this imagined world, Gretel works as an...
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