Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during September 2015 …

Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance, An Ophelia Flax, Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery (2nd in series)

Publisher: Berkley

  

Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax's plan to reunite her friend Prue with her estranged — and allegedly wealthy — mother, Henrietta, is met with a grim surprise. Not only is the marquise's Paris mansion a mouse-infested ruin, but Henrietta has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind an evasive husband, two sinister stepsisters, and a bullet-riddled corpse in the pumpkin patch decked out in a ball gown and one glass slipper — a corpse that also happens to be a dead ringer for Prue.

Strangely, no one at 15 rue Garenne seems concerned about who plugged this luckless Cinderella or why, so the investigation is left to Ophelia and Prue. It takes them through the labyrinthine maze of the Paris Opera, down the trail of a legendary fairy tale relic, into the confidence of a wily prince charmless, and makes them vulnerable to the secrets of a mysterious couturière with designs of her own on Prue's ever-twisting family history.

— Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for September 2015. For new hardcover mysteries, visit New Mysteries where for a list of September 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.