Search results

PRIDE AND PERSISTENCE is Jeanna Ellsworth's novel using characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book format in 2014. The morning after his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford while delivering his letter of explanation, Fitzwilliam Darcy is...

THE TRICKSTER'S LULLABY is the second book in Barbara Fradkin's Amanda Doucette mystery series. It was published in digital format in 2017. Amanda Doucette, former international aid worker who now runs Fun for Families charity tours, takes a diverse group of needy immigrant students into Mont...

NETHERFIELD PROPOSAL is Campbell Davies's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Fitzwilliam Darcy has struggled with his love for Elizabeth Bennet for a month and, convinced that she cares for him, proposes to her at the ball at Netherfiield...

"The Dancing Monkeys" is Sherwood Smith's short story sequel to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park that incorporates some of the Royal Navy men from Persuasion. It is available in digital format. A year after the scandal with Maria Rushworth, Henry Crawford wanders Europe, regretting his choices. At...

A MOST HANDSOME MAN is Suzan Lauder's comic novel loosely based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Her changes to the canon's story line and characters are too extensive to call her text simply a variant. It was published in digital format in 2017. Elizabeth Bennet is happy that her sister...

Hile asks, "Was there ever a snob like Sir Walter? He fairly leaps from the pages of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With one eye n the looking glass and the other on Who's Who, Sir Walter is Regency England's high society expert. Who better to give advice to the modern young woman wishing to improve...

NIGHTMARE IN BURGUNDY is the third book in the French Winemaker mystery series written by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen. Originally published in French in 2004, it was translated by Sally Pane and issued in digital format in 2014. Benjamin Cooker, the protagonist, is in Vougeot, Burgundy, to...

MEANT TO BE is Andreena Catana's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Fitzwilliam Darcy's running away seems the dominant motif in MEANT TO BE. With Georgiana still angry at his interference at Ramsgate isolating herself, he leaves Pemberley...

BILBURY CHRONICLES is the first in Vernon Coleman's The Young Country Doctor series. Originally published in 1992, it was reissued in digital format in 2014. Opening in early autumn 1971, BILBURY CHRONICLES tells the story of newly-qualified Dr. Coleman's first six months as assistant to Dr...

LONGBOURN'S DISTINGUISHED GUEST is Emily Russell's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. On the afternoon of the Meryton assembly, Elizabeth Bennet sees Fitzwilliam Darcy, unconscious from fever, fall from his horse and brings help from...

THE HISSING OF THE SILENT LONELY ROOM is the fifth book in Paul Charles's Inspector Christy Kennedy mystery series set in Camden Town. Originally published in 2001, it was reissued in digital format in 2017. When singer-songwriter Esther Bluewood is found dead of gas poisoning, Inspector...

Nicky Roth's A NUDGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION is a novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. I found no publication date. Driven to desperate measures by Fitzwilliam Darcy's continuing indifference toward herself and his growing attention to...

COMPROMISED! is J. Dawn King's variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice published in digital format in 2015. When Elizabeth Bennet discovers Fitzwilliam Darcy distraught over a letter from his sister Georgiana, despite their isolation and her dislike of the man, she holds him as he weeps...

LAST LAUGH is the newest to date, the eleventh book in Ben Rehder's Blanco County mystery series featuring John Marlin, Texas game warden. It is available in print and digital formats published in 2017. When Dub Kimble fails to return from a night pig hunt, Game Warden John Marlin organizes...

Jennifer Kay calls BEFORE A FALL a re-imagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in recently released digital format. When Elizabeth Bennet flees Longbourn in fury after her cousin's inept proposal of marriage, on the grounds at Netherfield she finds George Wickham, intent...

Sandra Grimes's discussion of CIRCLE OF TREASON: A CIA ACCOUNT OF TRAITOR ALDRICH AMES AND THE MEN HE BETRAYED on CSPAN prompted me to buy the book she co-authored with Jeanne Vertefeuille. It was published in 2016 to give the CIA account of the process which identified Aldrich Ames, the KGB...

MISS DARCY'S BEAUX is Eliza Shearer's sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that incorporates characters from Mansfield Park and Persuasion. It was published in e-book format in 2017. With Elizabeth Bennet Darcy heavily pregnant and confined to bed, with descent on Pemberley by the...

"A Tender Moment" is P. O. Dixon's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.. It was published in e-book format in 2017. At a party at Lucas Lodge, Elizabeth Bennet overhears Fitzwilliam Darcy's comment disparaging Mrs. Bennet's wit and blasts him for ungentlemanly behavior...

THE GOODNESS OF MEN is Anngela Schroeder's 2017 variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in a free or inexpensive e-book edition. Several months after the ball at Netherfield, Elizabeth Bennet travels with her aunt to visit Madeline Gardiner's old friend Mrs. Amelia...

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GHOSTS OF BLY AND OTHER NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT DETECTIVE is Donald Thomas's anthology of novellas based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous character. It is available in e-book format published in 2010. The first novella THE CASE OF A BOY'S HONOUR, reviewed...