Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for providing an advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This is the 2nd in the Miss Clara Vale Mysteries. I found this an enjoyable cozy mystery, that had a women private eye with a background in science during the 1920’s. There was enough action and twists to keep the reader reading. Clara is a private detective that inherits her uncle's business. She has been hired by a department store to find a thief and has been also hired to find Sybil Langford, the fairy godmother in a Cinderella production. Clara starts right into trying to find out what happened to Sybil by interviewing some of the players in the Cinderella production. From there she heads to the martial arts training to be a woman shopper in the department store. Clara is going back and forth on both cases to figure out who is stealing from the department store and where Sybil is. Two days later the police find Sybil’s body and think it is either a suicide or an accident, but Clara believes that it is foul play. Clara with a help of Bella, one of the woman shoppers thinks that they have solved the thievery case for the manager of the department store. Pick up this book and find out if Sybil was actually murdered or was it an accident and did Clara and Bella solve the department store case.

A surprising and tricky mystery set at Christmastime and in the English tradition of pant6omine, in this case Cinderella. When the Fairy Godmother disappears without warning at the end of the York run, friends ask PI Clara Vale to find her. The questions mount up as the investigation continues, coming to an entirely satisfying conclusion.