What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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Query abandoned by poster > ABANDONED. Crime novel, serial killer's calling card is obscure fairy tales. Spoilers ahead.

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message 1: by payge (new)

payge | 1 comments This is the only book I've read I can't properly remember, I just have some information flakes, and I'm not even sure if they are all true. I read this book around 2013.

- Main character is a female detective, has a male partner.
- Edgar Allan Poe is mentioned.
- One body is found near a river.
- One body is possibly found in a barrel?
- Bodies are dressed up/positioned to resemble some obscure fairy tales.
- It was snowing heavily at some point.
- Bodies or crime scenes had some sort of marking, a flower or a bird?
- Takes place in an American city, feels like 80's-90's.

Two remaining spoiler-heavy hints:

- The male partner gets murdered.
- The climax at the end takes place at an abandoned theme park of some sorts.

That's all I've got...


message 2: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55012 comments Mod
Added a spoiler alert to the topic header/title.


message 3: by Jon (new)

Jon Duckworth | 171 comments payge wrote: "This is the only book I've read I can't properly remember, I just have some information flakes, and I'm not even sure if they are all true. I read this book around 2013.

- Main character is a fema..."


Is it this one?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 4: by Jon (new)

Jon Duckworth | 171 comments Or this one ("Path of Needles") is set in the UK but appears to have a bird motif alongside the fairy tale MO...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 5: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55012 comments Mod
No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

payge (OP) last posted in the group in Feburary 2020.


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