A mystery.

Finally a fiction book I can wholeheartedly recommend.  If you're looking for a fun read,
Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints: A Brothers Grimm Mystery  is it.  This is the first in what is currently a three book series.   The author P.J. Brackston, has written a prequel to this one but it was actually published later.

The Gretel of the title is That Gretel ( a schtick that is repeated in the book.)  She is a grown woman and lives with her brother Hansel ( Hans).  To support the two of them, she has become a detective   In this book, a messenger arrives at her door, hands her a letter requesting her services and dies.  Two drawings by the artist Albrecht Durer have been stolen from the Nuremberg apartment of one of his heirs.  Gretel and Hans make their way to Nuremberg and she begins to work on the case while her brother and his hilarious school friend, their host in the city, take part a sausage festival.   After an appropriate number of twists and turns including the help of some talking mice, our heroine triumphs not only in her case but in her personal life as well.

I enjoyed this book.  After several books that were a chore to finish, this one was a breeze.  The cast of characters was easy to keep straight, a few fantasy elements made it into the story and I learned a bit of art history as well.  I wasn't able to find any evidence that Albrecht Durer actually did any frog prints but I could find his rhinoceros print that is mentioned in the book.  I'm going to keep my eye out for other books in this series.