The Fairy Tale Murders: The race is on to stop a twisted killer

by Iain Henn

Overview

An obsessed killer plays games with the living and the dead.

One rainy night in Seattle, the body of a young woman is found outside a dance studio. Cause of death, a single gunshot wound to the head.

The victim is recognised by her former teacher as a student who disappeared four years ago.

The FBI's advanced AI system, Themis, alerts Special Agent Ilona Farris, who quickly links the case to similar deaths in Washington State.

All the unfortunate souls were holding a page torn from the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. But the mutilated bodies tell a story far darker than those found in folklore.

What happens to the victims before they are found, years later? And can the choice of fairy tale in each killing hold the key to discovering the motive of the murderer?

THE FAIRY TALE MURDERS is the fifth standalone thriller in a gripping series about a special FBI unit focused on seemingly unsolvable crimes. The full list is as follows:

1. THE PIPER'S CHILDREN

2. THE WHISTLER'S OMEN

3. THE STORM KILLINGS

4. THE DEVIL'S ARTIST

5. THE FAIRY TALE MURDERS

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804623336
Publisher:	Book Folks
Publication date:	03/06/2025
Series:	The Unsolvable Crimes , #5
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Born in Sydney, Australia, Iain worked for many years in print media production for newspapers, magazines, and direct marketing agencies, and as a writer for small business websites.
He has written fiction from a young age. Somewhere in his house, there is still a framed copy of his first published story, a '5-minute fiction' tale in Woman's Day. Since then, he has never looked back, having short stories published in various magazines worldwide, and now his suspenseful thrillers and mysteries.
Commenting on what influenced his writing journey, he describes a moment that has stayed with him. On his first day in his first job, as a teenage messenger boy, he left the office via a back exit into a narrow alleyway where he saw the body of a man crumpled on the ground. He had just jumped out of a window from the neighbouring building. The paramedics were already approaching. When Iain returned an hour or so later, the body and the surrounding activity were gone, there was just a chalk outline on the ground where the body had been. Ever since he has wondered who that man was, what led him to suicide, and what his future might have been had he lived. Decades later, that chalk outline is often on the writer's mind when telling the stories of his characters' lives.
Authors who have inspired Iain include Daphne Du Maurier, Ken Follett, Michael Crichton, Tess Gerritsen, Michael Robotham, and Harlen Coben. He lives on the New South Wales coast with his wife.