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ANNE'S ADVERSITY is the second book in Jennifer Joy's The Cousins series, a trilogy of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book format in 2015. Anne de Bourgh has believed all her life that her father Sir Lewis de Bourgh died six months before her birth. When...

John Marquis published BLOOD AND FIRE: THE DUKE OF WINDSOR AND THE STRANGE MURDER OF SIR HARRY OAKES in 2006. The Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, was Governor of the Bahamas when its wealthiest citizen Sir Harry Oakes was brutally murdered at his home Westbourne in Nassau during the...

Nora Kipling calls SHADOWS UPON NETHERFIELD a variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book form in 2016. It varies from the original enough that a more accurate description is a story using Austen's characters' names and a few plot elements. Because many Amazon...

LATTER END, one of Patricia Wentworth's long-running Miss Maud Silver mystery series. was originally published in 1949. Though often considered a knockoff of Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth, Miss Silver actually predates Miss Marple. LATTER END was published in digital format in 2011. Lois...

DARCY'S ULTIMATUM is the first book in Jennifer Joy's The Cousins series of variations on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. George Darcy is adamant. His son Fitzwilliam Darcy must be engaged to be married by the end of the Season or be disinherited...

BEAST OF ROBBERS WOOD is the third book in Ralph E. Vaughan's mystery series featuring DCI Arthur Ravyn. It was published in digital format in 2017. BEAST OF ROBBERS WOOD is set in Vaughan's fictional county of Hammershire, where the past lives on and newcomers remain strangers for untold...

The title page of Kate Speck's new digitally-published GROWING PAINS calls it a variation on Pride and Prejudice, but I'm confident that Jane Austen is rotating in her grave at what's been done with its characters' names and scraps of its plot. GROWING PAINS also includes the Wentworth brothers...

DEATH OF AN HONEST MAN is the latest to date in M. C. Beaton's long-running Hamish Macbeth series set in Lochdubh, Sutherland, Scotland. It was published in print and digital editions in 2018. Newcomer to the village of Cnothan Paul English prides him on his honest speech, unconcerned that he...

A TAPESTRY OF LIVES, Book 3, concludes Jean Sims's three-volume variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. Like its predecessors, A TAPESTRY OF LIVES, Book 3, contains detailed stories focusing on various of the canonical characters: Caroline...

A TAPESTRY OF LIVES, Book 2, follows the pattern established in the first with many back stories--Wickham's birth and fate, Lady Catherine's plans for Pemberley after her sister's death, George Darcy's death, more depravities of the older de Bourgh brothers, Anne's situation. The stories...

A TAPESTRY OF LIVES, Book 1, is Jean Sims's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book format in 2014. Multi-generational back stories to canonical characters including Thomas Bennet's family, the Gardiners, the Fitzwilliams, the de Bourghs, and the Darcys form...

A GRAVE DENIED is the thirteenth book in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mystery series. It was published in 2003. On a school field trip, Kate's foster son Johnny Morgan finds a corpse exposed by spring melt on the Grant Glacier. The man, shot in the chest with a shotgun, is Len Dreyer, handyman...

FAIR STANDS THE WIND is Catherine Lodge's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. In FAIR STANDS THE WIND, Fitzwilliam Darcy is the second son of the Pemberley Darcys, sent to sea at nine years old, the half-brother to Georgiana Darcy. Captain...

Laura Thompson's A DIFFERENT CLASS OF MURDER recounts the murder and inquest in which Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl or Lucan, 13th Baronet Bingham of Castleban (Co. Mayo), 3rd Baron Bingham of Melcombe Bingham, and baronet of Nova Scotia, was named as the killer of his children's nanny Sandra...

IRREVOCABLY GONE is the sequel to P. O. Dixon's short story "A Tender Moment," both variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. They are bundled in a free or inexpensive digital edition published in 2018. Told by Caroline Bingley that Elizabeth Bennet is to marry William Collins and secure...

"A Tender Moment" is a short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Witten by P. O. Dixon, it is the prequel to IRREVOCABLY GONE presented with the novel in a digital edition published in 2018. Quite brief, "A Tender Moment" narrates the confrontation between Elizabeth Bennet and...

CLOSE HER EYES is the fourth book in Dorothy Simpson's long-running series. Originally published in 1984, it was reprinted in 1995 in THE SECOND INSPECTOR THANET OMNIBUS. The OMNIBUS has not been digitized, but it is readily available in inexpensive secondhand print format. Only a short time...

CHANCE ENCOUNTERS is Anne-Marie Grace's 2018 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. When she joins Jane to visit the Gardiners, Elizabeth Bennet speaks with a pleasant young woman over a volume of poetry in a London bookstore; she's...

THE CHELTENHAM SQUARE MURDER is one of Ernest Carpenter Elmore's Superintendent Meredith series from the Golden Age of Murder written under his John Bude pseudonym. Originally published in 1937, it was reissued in 2017 in print and digital formats. The murder of Captain Mark Cotton, shot in the...

THE DARCY PLOT is Harriet Knowles's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format.as Following the disastrous proposal and infuriated rejection at Hunsford, even with the softening of her animosity toward Fitzwiliam Darcy over George...