Christopher Healy 
No One Leaves the Castle [EPUB ebook] 

The Brothers Grimm meets Knives Out in this unexpected, hilarious, and wholly original fantasy-murder-mystery.The Lilac. The bard songs say that shes the worlds most fearsome bounty hunter. That theres no criminal she cant catch, no mystery she cant solve.None of that is true. Yet.In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty hunter in the Thirteen Kingdomsand when a priceless artifact goes missing from the home of famed monster hunter Baron Angbar, the Lilac and Netta are eager to apprehend the thief and make a name for themselves.But when their investigation brings them to a dinner party at Castle Angbar, and they meet the Angbar family and their servants and guestsan unsavory group of nobles, mages, and assorted creatures, each more shady than the lastthe Lilac begins to wonder if the reward is worth the trouble.And thats before the dead body is discovered.Now, everyone is magically sealed inside the castleand there is a murderer among them. If the Lilac wants to make it out with her reputation intact, its going to be up to her to figure out who the killer is.But everyone in the castleeven the Lilac herselfhas secrets to hide, and as the walls literally start to close in around them, the Lilac worries that her first job as a bounty hunter may be her last