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Alexa Adams's "Mr. Darcy's Christmas Present" is a holiday-themed short story using character and place names from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2017. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are married, both old enough that they...

"A Twist of Fate" is Brenda J. Webb's holiday short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 201 Mr. Bennet died in the summer of 1812; Mr. Collins immediately evicted he Bennet women from Longbourn. Two years later the...

'TIS THE SEASON FOR MATCHMAKING is P. O. Dixon's Christmas sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format, published in 2017. Elizabeth Bennet Darcy's plans for a quiet family house party for her first Christmas at Pemberley. Her parents...

THE HIGHWAYMAN is the fourteenth book in Craig Johnson's outstanding Walt Longmire mystery series. A novella, it was published in e-book format in 2016. I incorrectly classified it as a Christmas-themed story but, by the time I discovered my mistake, I was too interested to quit reading. I don't...

"Christmas, Corpses, and Clockwork Kittens" is a Christmas short story by L. A. Nisula. It's set in Mayfair during the Christmas season, with references to a hansom cab and to steam-powered and clockwork automata as the only guide to period. It was published in digital format in 2016. The first...

A MERRY DARCY CHRISTMAS is Emma Dow's holiday variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Available in free or inexpensive digital format, it was published in 2016. Lady Catherine de Bourgh dispatches Mr. Collins to Longbourn in November 1812 to invite Elizabeth Bennet to Rosings for the...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM THE DARCYS is Barbara Silverstone's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, moved to the present and set on Christmas Eve. It was published in digital format in 2015. I am seriously whimsy-challenged, so HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM THE DARCYS pushes my buttons...

A KNIFE AT THE OPERA is the second book in Susannah Stacey's Superintendent Bone mystery series. Originally published in 1988, it does not appear to be available in digital format but, like many of the older series, inexpensive secondhand print editions are readily available. This series is well...

Kara Louise's anthology PEMBERLEY CELEBRATIONS--THE FIRST YEAR, first published in 2002 and reissued in digital format in 2011, is a series of short story sequels to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Its first five stories all occur between December and New Year's Eve. The stories covering the...

Mary Lawrence's MARY AND THE CAPTAIN, while not seasonally titled, is a Christmas variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Caroline Bingley, to promote a match between her brother Captain Robert Bingley with her best friend Miss Helena Paget...

HOW THE FINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! is Donna Andrews's 2017 holiday entry in her long-running Meg Langslow series set in Caerphilly, Virginia. Meg is run off her feet between her "part time" jobs as aMayor Randall Shiffley's overseer of Caerphilly's tourist-attracting Christmas celebrations and as...

MISTLETOE AT THORNTON LACEY is Barbara Cornthwaite's novella variant on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. It is available in digital format, published in 2017 in the anthology A VERY AUSTEN CHRISTMAS. Some months after Tom Bertram's illness and the scandals involving his sisters, he and Susan...

NO BETTER GIFT is a Wendi Sotis novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in 2017 as part of the digital anthology A VERY AUSTEN CHRISTMAS. When Fitzwilliam Darcy, en route to spend Christmas at Matlock with his family, passes through Meryton, he is surprised to...

THE MATCHMAKER'S CHRISTMAS is Laura Hile's novella with protagonists from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but including characters from Emma and Mansfield Park. It is part of the digital anthology A VERY AUSTEN CHRISTMAS published in 2017. I am whimsy-impaired, so I see THE MATCHMAKER'S...

Bill Crider's short story "The Adventure of the Christmas Bear" is based on the Sherlock Holmes-Doctor John H. Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in 1999, the story is included in Crider's anthology EIGHT ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, issued in digital...

CHRISTMAS AT LONGBOURN is Karen Aminadra's Yuletide variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It begins at Longbourn 21 November 1815, with the action continuing through Christmas. It was published in digital format in 2017. Still unmarried and with few prospects, Mary and Kitty Bennet both...

Ben Rehder's "Dog Tag" is a short story addition to his long-running Blanco County series set in Texas. It was published in digital format in 2017. Glen, homeowner in an upscale gated community, is driven mad by the constant barking of the beagle belonging to the gorgeous redhead next door. The...

MIDNIGHT COME AGAIN is the tenth book in Dana Stabenow's long-running Kate Shugak mystery series. It was originally published in 2000 and reissued in digital format in 2007. The summer following the murder of Kate Shugak's lover Jack Morgan (see Hunter's Moon), First Sergeant Jim Chopin, Alaska...

CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. DARCY is Mary Lydon Simsonsen's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. DARCY opens the morning of the assembly at Meryton. It compresses the action to have Elizabeth and Darcy (and Jane and...

Madeline Kennet's IN MY HEART is a novella set during the Gardiners' tour with Elizabeth Bennet northward into Derbyshire. A variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, it was published in digital format in 2017. Writers of Austen fan fiction must walk a delicate line. With too much change...