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DISRUPTION AT PEMBERLEY is Emily Russell's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. While they are holiday in Derbyshire, three highwaymen rob the Gardiners' coach, injure Mr. Gardiner, and mean to kidnap Elizabeth Bennet. Fortunately...

A RECKONING IN THE BACK COUNTRY is the seventh book in Terry Shames's series featuring Police Chief Samuel Craddock of Jarrett Creek, Texas. It was published in digital format in 2018. When the story opens Thanksgiving week, Samuel Craddock is having a quiet time, the only problem three...

LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING is Harriet Knowles's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. Elizabeth Bennet awakens in the middle of the night to discover Longbourn on fire. She awakens the family. Jane and her parents leave the house, but Mary loses her...

SIX FEET UNDER is the second book in Dorothy Simpson's Inspector Luke Thanet series set in Sturrenden, Kent. Originally published in 1982, it was reprinted in INSPECTOR THANET OMNIBUS in 1994, readily available in inexpensive secondhand paperback. In SIX FEET UNDER, Thanet faces two problems...

A LADY'S PRIDE is Jennifer Kay's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. At the Netherfield ball while Elizabeth suffers humiliation at her family's uncouth behavior and quarrels with Darcy as they dance, Thomas Bennet collapses...

THE RED TELEPHONE BOX is the fifth book in P. F. Ford's Detective Sergeant Dave Slater series set in Tinton, Hampshire. It was published in digital format in 2015. When the flat of partner Detective Sergeant Norman Norman* is torched by an arsonist, Slater waits anxiously to discover his...

THE LONGBOURN WILL is Carolyn Whyte's 2015 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. The premise on which THE LONGBOURN WILL is based is original and explains much of the backstory to events from Austen. Thomas Bennet's older sister...

FIVE LITTLE PIGS is one in Agatha Christie's immortal Hercule Poirot series, also printed under the title MURDER IN RETROSPECT. Originally published in 1942, it was reissued in digital format in 2011. FIVE LITTLE PIGS differs in several ways from other Poirot stories. For scenes in which he is...

MOTHERS KNOW BEST is Iris Lim's variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was originally published in early 2017, then in a second digital edition in late 2017. Disgusted by matchmaking Society mothers who've spread rumors about his behavior toward women, Fitzwilliam Darcy declares...

THE NIGHT SHE DIED is the first book in Dorothy Simpson's long-running series featuring Detective Inspector Luke Thanet of the Sturrenden, Kent, CID. Originally published in 1981, it was reprinted in 1994 as part of the INSPECTOR THANET OMNIBUS, readily available in inexpensive secondhand print...

BECOMING ENTANGLED is Leenie Brown's 2017 novella sequel to her UNRAVELLING MR. DARCY, itself a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Anne de Bourgh and Alistair Pratt, son of Lord and Lady Metcalfe, are both under pressure to marry...

Joana Starnes's MISS DARCY'S COMPANION is a 2016 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Mr. Bennet dies unexpectedly before the story opens, and the Bennet family breaks up, with Mrs. Bennet and the three younger sisters living with...

MR. CAMPION'S ABDICATION is the fourth book in Mike Ripley's continuation of Margery Allingham's long-running mystery series featuring Albert Campion. It was published in digital format in 2017. Heronhoe Hall, between the villages of Heronhoe and Sweetheartings in East Suffolk, is the focus of...

THE ELIZABETH CONSPIRACY is Jennifer Joy's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Unbeknownst to her, while Elizabeth Bennet burns with anger and furiously rejects Fitzwilliam Darcy's marriage proposal at Hunsford, Anne de...

"Four Days in April" is Maria Grace's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. The four days is 9-12 April 1812 when, at Rosings and Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy clear their misconceptions of the other's character...

TSUNAMI WARNING is the second book in Brent Purvis's Jim and Kram series set in Craig, Alaska. It was published in digital format in 2015. Alaska State Trooper Lieutenant Jim Welke has been in charge of the station on Prince of Wales Island some seven months, and things are jumping. He now has...

FOR PEACE OF MIND is Leenie Brown's 2014 variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Because Mrs. Bennet's wrath against Elizabeth makes Longbourn unbearable, Mr. Bennet sends her with Jane to visit the Gardiners, where previously unknown...

Karen Aminadra's ROSINGS is the second in her Pride and Prejudice Continues series of sequels to Jane Austen's classic. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2013. Alienated from Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy by her own actions, Lady Catherine de Bourgh loses Reverend and...

TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE: THE TRAGEDY AT MAYERLING AND THE END OF THE HABSBURGS is Greg King and Penny Wilson's account of the deaths of Rudolf, Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Mary Vetsera, his young mistress. TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE was published in 2017. Many treatments of the apparent...

Kate Speck's LESSONS N GRATITUDE uses the names of some figures from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but it changes them and the story line too much to be considered a variant. It is indeed something rich and strange. It was issued in free or inexpensive digital format in 2017. ~~~SPOILERS...