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THE BENNETS TAKE ON THE TON is Perpetua Langley's latest variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Mrs. Bennet is in London buying finery with which she hopes Jane and Elizabeth will attract husbands forthwith. Bumped into by a man descending from...

A DEEPER SLEEP is the fifteenth novel in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mystery series. Originally published in 2007, iwas released in digital format in 2014. Louis Deem is a psychopath, one who's abused and caused the deaths of three wives and escaped punishment through inept prosecution, a...

AN OVERHEARD PROPOSAL is one of Jennifer Lang's novella variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Hannah, maid / companion / spy for Lady Catherine de Bourgh since childhood, commissioned by her to follow and report her nephew Fitzwilliam Darcy's...

WHAT COMES BETWEEN COUSINS is Jann Rowland's latest variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book format in 2018. Viscount Chesterfield and heir to the Earl of Matlock following the death of his older brother in a carriage accident, Colonel Anthony Fitzwilliam, along...

MURDER IN THE FAMILY is Burl Barer's true-crime account of the 1987 murders of Nancy Newman and her daughters Melissa and Angela. Originally published in print, it was reissued in a second digital edition in 2016. The bodies of Nancy, Melissa, and Angie Newman were discovered by Nancy's...

BANISHING MR. DARCY'S LONELINESS is Kay Mares's newly published variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. Where to begin? Traveling from Rosings following Fitzwwilliam Darcy's disastrous proposal and explanatory letter to Elizabeth Bennet, he and his...

ASSUMPTIONS AND ABSURDITIES is Cinnamon Worth's variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Amazon reviewers rate ASSUMPTIONS AND ABSURDITIES highly, and its story line looks interesting, but I am giving up at 43 per cent. The title is entirely...

Gisèle Vézetay's "The Forgotten Bonnet" is a short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. "The Forgotten Bonnet" occurs in the two-week interval between the Bennet sisters' move home following Jane's illness and their return to...

ALONE WITH MR. DARCY is one of Abigail Reynolds's variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2014. Fitzwilliam Darcy, en route to Meryton on horseback in a January snowstorm, is thrown and injured. Elizabeth Bennet, desperate to escape the crowd and...

THE MURDER OF A QUACK is one of two mystery novels written by George Bellairs published in a digital bundle in 2017. THE MURDER OF A QUACK was originally published in 1943. My response to the novel is ambivalent for a couple of reasons. One is the lack of characterization of its protagonist...

DEAR SIR, DEAR MADAM, is Mary Lydon Simonsen's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. What if, after his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford, Darcy and she exchange a series of letters in which each explains the...

NO MORE THAN FRIENDS is Wendy Ann Gallant's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Characters are reasonably faithful to Austen's creations, though neither Elizabeth nor Darcy needs fundamental changes in their behavior or attitudes. Darcy's...

PARTICULAR INTENTIONS is the first in L. L. Diamond's Particular Intentions series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. PARTICULAR INTENTIONS is disjointed, two distinct story lines connected by characters. In the first has Darcy, after...

LAST SEEN ALIVE is the fifth book in Dorothy Simpson's Inspector Thanet series set in Sturrenden, Kent. Originally published in 1985, it was reprinted in 1995 as part of the SECOND INSPECTOR THANET OMNIBUS, which is readily available as an inexpensive secondhand paperback. Detective Inspector...

THE DARCY DECISION is the final installment of Meg Osborne's three-title series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. ~~~DEFINITE SPOILERS~~~ Elizabeth Bennet, disowned because she plans to marry Darcy without her father's consent...

Meg Osborne calls THE WICKHAM WAGER the second book in her Pathway to Pemberley variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. More accurately, it is the second installment in a serial novel--its only resolution is Jane and Bingley's marriage. It was published in digital format in 2017...

THE COLLIN CONUNDRUM is the first book in Meg Osborne's Pathway to Pemberley series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Significance of the title is not clear. Osbourne makes only two major changes to the original plot. The first has...

A TAINT IN THE BLOOD is the fourteenth book in Dana Stabenow's long-running mystery series featuring Kate Shugak. It was published in print and digital formats in 2007. Charlotte Bannister Muravieff hires Kate Shugak to get her mother Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff out of prison. She's...

COLONEL FITZWILLIAM'S CHALLENGE is the third and final book in Jennifer Joy's The Cousins variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2015. Colonel Richard meets French refugee Adelaide Mauvier when his cousin Anne marries Adelaide's...

THE GOAT PARVA MURDERS is one of Julian Worker's Inspector Knowles police procedurals. It features Detective Inspector Colin Knowles and his assistant Detective Sergeant Rod Barnes of the Scoresby CID. Published in 2014, it is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Knowles and Barnes...