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"Amid the Winter's Snow" is a Christmas-themed short story by Tasha Alexander, published in Kindle edition in 2018. Lady Emily and husband Colin Hargreaves are at their home Anglemore Park in Derbyshire for Christmas when a delegation from Dunsford Vale, one of the estate villages, calls with a...

THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED is the second in George Bellairs's mystery series featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard, Originally published in 1942, reprinted in 1943 as Murder Will Speak, it was reissued in 2017 in an inexpensive Kindle bundle with The Murder of a Quack...

Catherine Bilson's A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE AT LONGBOURN is her 2018 holiday variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital and print formats. Events from the original story are changed minimally. Time is shortened, events occurring between the Bingley party's leaving...

THE LYRIC WORE LYCRA is the fourteenth book in Mark Schweizer's Liturgical Detective series featuring as first person narrator Heyden Konig, chief of police in St. Germaine, North Carolina, where he is also organist and choir director for St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. It was published in...

AN UNPLEASANT SORT OF MAN is Nicky Roth's latest variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. Fitzwilliam Darcy has much reason for his unsocial behavior at the Meryton assembly; he has an infected gunshot wound from his rescue of Georgiana from George...

JOHNNY UNDER GROUND is the sixth book in Patricia Moyes's mystery series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett of Scotland Yard and his wife Emmy. Originally published in 1965, it was rereleased in 2016 in digital format. When Emmy receives an invitation to the first reunion of...

BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT is Lory Lilian's latest to date novel variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was issued in digital format in 2018. BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT stays reasonably close to the original story line with the evolving relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth. However, its...

CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES is the first book in Leo Bruce's Golden Age series featuring Sergeant Beef, a John-Bullish village bobby who claims only following procedure and common sense. Originally published in 1936, it was reissued in digital format in 2014. When Mrs. Mary Thurston is found dead...

A PEMBERLEY CHRISTMAS is the fourth and final novella in Lindsay Beaudine's 2018 anthology PRIDE AND PREJUDICE--VARIATIONS AND CONTINUATIONS. The first Christmas after their marriage, Fitzwilliam Darcy wants a quiet, simple celebration while Elizabeth wants to be surrounded by her family. They...

DARCY AND LIZZY'S CORNISH ADVENTURE is the third novella in Lindsay Beaudine's 2018 anthology PRIDE AND PREJUDICE--VARIATIONS AND CONTINUATIONS. Some six months after their wedding, both Darcy and Elizabeth are tired and want a holiday, so they decide to tour Cornwall. To add to the adventure...

HALLOWEEN AT PEMBERLEY is the second novella / short story in Lindsay Beaudine's anthology PRIDE AND PREJUDICE--VARIATIONS AND CONTINUATIONS. It was published in digital format in 2018. During a visit to Bingley in Hertfordshire in autumn following the Hunsford proposal, Fitzwilliam Darcy...

A PEMBERLEY HAUNTING is a short story by Lindsay Beaudine included in her PRIDE AND PREJUDICE--VARIATIONS AND CONTINUATIONS published in digital format in 2018. More accurately, it is a story using the names of Jane Austen's characters. Fitzwilliam Darcy invites the Bennet family, the Bingley...

Originally published in 1964, FALLING STAR is the fifth book in Patricia Moyes's long-running Inspector Henry Tibbett series. It was reissued in digital format in 2018. Anthony Croombe-Peters, aka Pudge, narrates the story in first person. He, set designer Keith Pardoe, Pardoe's...

"The Carriage Ride" is Mary Lydon Simonsen's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. A week after Darcy's proposal and his letter of explanation, Elizabeth Bennet travels to London from Kent. At the inn in Bromley, she...

KIDS WHO KILL, CASE 1: JOSHUA PHILLIPS is Kathryn McMaster's account of the murder of Madelyn "Maddie" Rae Clifton in Jacksonville, Florida, 3 November 1998, and the subsequent trial and appeals of Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips. Found guilty of first degree murder, Joshua was fourteen years old...

COINCIDENCE is Jann Rowland's 2017 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in print and digital versions. Suppose Darcy realizes that Elizabeth Bennet dislikes him and that to propose to her at Hunsford would result in a disastrous refusal. That is the premise from which...

HENRIETTA WHO? is the second novel in Catherine Aird's police procedural Calleshire Chronicles series featuring Detective Inspector C. D. "Seedy" Sloan and his legman PC Crosby. Originally published in 1973, it was reissued in digital format in 2015. When postman Harry Ford finds the body of a...

ASSESSING MR. DARCY is one of Leenie Brown's Dash of Darcy series of novella variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. However, calling it a variant is a misnomer because it is a story of moderns using Austen characters' names. The fundamental...

THOUGH NOT DEAD is the eighteenth title in Dana Stabenow's long-running Kate Shugak series set in bush Alaska. It was published in print and digital formats in 2011. Although it contains crime and detection, THOUGH NOT DEAD deals primarily with family, what constitutes family, and what...

Zoe Burton's DARCY OVERHEARS is a novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. As they are leaving a dinner with the militia officers in Meryton, Darcy, Bingley, and Hurst overhear George Wickham planning to ruin Elizabeth Bennet as revenge...