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PATROLLING THE HEART OF THE WEST: TRUE TALES OF A NEVADA STATE TROOPER is a collection of tales of Steve Raabe's long career as a Nevada State trooper. It was published in digital format in 2018. Raabe's stories are brief vignettes rather than plotted stories. Some are humorous, some touching...

MR. BENNET'S GAMBIT is Don H. Miller's use of character names from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in a much different story line. It was published in digital format in 2018. Determined that Elizabeth find a suitable husband, Thomas Bennet decrees that either she or Jane must marry Mr...

Barbara Fradkin's THE FALL GUY is one of the Rapid Reads series sponsored by the Canadian government and Canadian publishers. Designed for use by ESL and students building reading skills, the books are short, high interest stories with easily understood vocabulary, distinct plot structure, and a...

THE LONG ROAD TO LONGBOURN is the latest to date of Renata McMann and Summer Hanford's variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. THE LONG ROAD TO LONGBOURN opens with George Wickham's accidentally becoming involved with smugglers, to whom he...

A LOVER TOO MANY is the first novel in Roy Lewis's police procedural series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector John Crow. Originally published in 1959, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. The coroner at the inquest on Jeannette Marlin clearly indicates that Peter Marlin is alibied and not...

AT DARCY HOUSE is Jane Grix's novel-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. AT DARCY HOUSE opens with a prologue in which Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose father George has been dead for three months, receives a letter addressed to "Mr. Darcy."...

THE RELIGIOUS BODY is the first book in Catherine Aird's long-running police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector C. D. ("Seedy") Sloan of the Beresbury Division of the Calleshire Constabulary (The Calleshire Chronicles). Originally published in 1966, it was reissued in digital format...

PAINTING MR. DARCY is Grace Hollister's novel-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Before Darcy at Hunsford tells her he must talk with her, Elizabeth Bennet receives a letter from Mr. Bennet that he is gravely ill and needs her home...

KILLING FOR YOU: A BRAVE SOLDIER, A BEAUTIFUL DANCER, AND A SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER is Keith Elliot Greenberg's account of the murders of Samuel Eliazer Herr and Juri "Julie" Kibuishi by Daniel Patrick Wozniak in May 2010. The case had all the ingredients to turn into a media circus: victims a...

THE SHINING YEARS is one of Emilie Loring's late books, originally published in 1972. It was reissued in digital format in 2018. Loring was one of the creators of the romantic-suspense genre in the mid-twentieth century. As a then teenaged and young adult reader, I read every Loring title I...

DEATH IN A WHITE TIE is the seventh book in Ngaio Marsh's long-running police procedural series featuring Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. Originally published in 1938, it was reissued in digital format in 2013. It's the London Season, and when Mrs. Halcot-Hackett...

TEMPT YOU TO ACCEPT ME is one of Cassandra B. Leigh's variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in 2013 in digital format. Two days after leaving Hertfordshire following the Netherfield ball, Darcy returns in haste to Longbourn to propose to Elizabeth Bennet. Surprised by...

MR. DARCY'S TROUBLE WITH OFFICERS is Elizabeth Goodrich's first variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth Bennet while she's at Netherfield tending Jane; summoned to Rosings by Lady Catherine de Bourgh, he suggests...

BRICKS AND MORTALITY is the third book in Ann Granger's Campbell and Carter police procedural series. It was published in digital format in 2013. When Key House, empty and long abandoned home of ex-patriate Gervase Crown burns to the ground, firemen find the body of a man in the ruins. He'd...

THE FLAXBOROUGH CRAB is one of Colin Watson's long-running Flaxborough police procedural series. Originally published in 1969, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. Something stranger than usual is going on in Flaxborough, where outrageous behavior is commonplace. Reports of voyeurism and...

MY FALKLAND ISLANDS LIFE: OUR FAMILY'S VERY BRITISH ADVENTURE is Jen Carter's account of two years, 1986-1988, in the Falkland Islands while husband Andrew worked as a trained agronomist for the Falkland Islands Development Corporation. It was published in digital format in 2017. Never having...

A PECULIAR COURTSHIP is Alice Morgan's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When Elizabeth Bennet reads Darcy's letter of explanation following his proposal at Hunsford, she is troubled by her faulty perception of his character. She asks and...

UNEXPECTED AFFECTION is a novella-length variant by Cassandra Knightley based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. During her visit to Hunsford, Fitzwilliam Darcy has spent time and walked with Elizabeth Bennet, changing her opinion of him enough...

THE IVORY DAGGER is one of Patricia Wentworth's long-running series of mystery novels featuring former governess Miss Maud Silver, now a private enquiry agent. Originally published in 1950, it was reissued in digital format in 2011. Sir Herbert Whitall is a wealthy, middle-aged businessman who...

WHEN JANE GOT ANGRY is the latest to date in Victoria Kincaid's novella variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When Caroline Bingley finally returns her call in London, Jane Bennet realizes that Elizabeth had been right in her appraisal of...