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DEATH OF AN OLD GIRL is the first book in Elizabeth Lemarchand's Pollard and Toye mystery series. Originally published in 1967, it is available in digital format. When snooping, interfering Beatrice Baynes is found dead at the General Meeting of the Old Meldonian Society, Detective Chief...

A CONTRARY WIND is Lona Manning's novel-length variation on Jane Austen's Manssfield Park, set in the year following October 1808. It was published in digital format in 2017. A CONTRARY WIND contains two major story lines, each of which merits development as a separate novel. One is a sequel to...

THE CASE OF THE FAMISHED PARSON is one of George Bellairs's mystery series featuring Inspector Tom Littlejohn. Published in the United Kingdom in 1949, it was reissued in digital format in 2016. Inspector and Mrs. Littlejohn are on holiday at the Cape Mervin Hotel when fellow-guest James...

LOVE, LETTERS AND LIES is Renata McMann and Summer Hanford's 2018 variant on Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. When Elizabeth Bennet foils Caroline Bingley's attempt to compromise Fitzwilliam Darcy into marriage, her fury leads her to lock Darcy and Elizabeth...

THE CHOIR DIRECTOR WORE OUT is the fifteenth book in Mark Schweizer's Liturgical Mystery series set in St. Germaine, North Carolina. It was published in print and digital formats in 2018. Little ha changed in St. Germane as Hayden Konig goes about his duties as Chief of Police and as part-time...

AND WHO CAN BE IN DOUBT OF WHAT FOLLOWED? is an anthology of Alexa Adams's brief continuations of Jane Austen's six completed novels. They were published in digital format in 2013. Each sequel uses Austen's hints at the end of each novel about subsequent action as a starting point to develop...

A DEADLY GAME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SCOTT PETERSON INVESTIGATION is Catherine Crier's account of the disappearance of eight-months-pregnant Lacy Peterson on Christmas Eve, 2002, the subsequent investigation, and the trial for murder for her husband Scott Peterson, currently on death row in...

"Mistletoe Mismanagement" is Elizabeth Adams's holiday short story in YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES, published in digital edition in 2018. Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy have been married a month and are entertaining a house party for the first time, as the Fitzwilliam...

"The Season for Friendly Meetings" is Anngela Shroeder's holiday short story included in the YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES, published in digital format in 2018. Jane, depressed over the departure of Charles Bingley from Netherfield, and Elizabeth, condemned by her...

"Homespun for the Holidays" is J. Marie Croft's short story included in the YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES published in digital format in 2018. "Homespun for the Holidays" refers to the gift-cum-charity shop operated by Elizabeth Bennet and her family outside the village...

"By a Lady" is Lona Manning's holiday short story in YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES, published in digital format in 2018. Accepting Lady Catherine's olive branch, Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Bennet Darcy and their young children William and baby Catherine are spending...

"The Wishing Ball" is Amy D'Orazio's short story included in YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES published in digital format in 2018. "The Wishing Ball" is adapts Darcy and Elizabeth to modern day. It begins with Georgiana Darcy's purchasing a holiday ornament, a wishing...

The second short story in YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES is Joana Starnes's "And Evermore Be Merry." The anthology was published in digital format in 2018. "And Evermore Be Merry" is a short slice of life account from Georgiana Darcy Vernon's point of view, catching up...

"The Forfeit" is Caitlin Williams's short story introducing YULETIDE: A JANE AUSTEN-INSPIRED COLLECTION OF STORIES, published in 2018 in digital format. Passing through Hertfordshire, Darcy performs a brief errand for Charles Bingley and, when snow makes the roads impassible, is forced to...

AN UNEXPECTED MERRY GENTLEMAN is Anngela Schroeder's 2018 holiday novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in print and digital formats. The major change in AN UNEXPECTED MERRY GENTLEMAN is to have Charles Bingley and the Darcy siblings spend Christmas at...

"The Twelfth Drumming" is the final story in Roger Riccard's holiday collection, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, published in 2018 in print and digital formats. Dr. Watson left a trunk of notes on unpublished Sherlock Holmes' cases to Riccard's grandmother Mrs. Ruby Hudson...

"The Eleven Pipe Problem" is the penultimate story in Roger Riccard's hollday collection SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, published in print and digital format in 2018. Riccard developed the stories from notes on Holmes's cases, left by Dr. Watson to Riccard's grandmother Mrs...

"The Tenth Lord Leaping" is one of the Christmastime short stories in Roger Riccard's anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. It was published in digital and print formats in 2018. The stories grew from case notes left by Dr. Watson in a trunk bequeathed to Riccard's...

"The Ninth Ladyship at the Dance" is one of Roger Riccard's holiday short stories in his 2018 anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. The collection is available in both print and digital formats. Using notes on unpublished cases of Sherlock Holmes found in a trunk left to...

"The Eighth Milkmaid" is a short story from Roger Riccard's holiday anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, published in digital and print formats in 2018. The collection is said to have been developed from Dr. Watson's notes on Holmes's cases, left in a trunk to Riccard's...