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THICKER THAN WATER is the first novella in Michael McDonnell's mystery series featuring Dermot O'Hara, of the Kenmare, County Kerry, Garda. It was published in traditional and digital format in 2012. Dermot O'Hara is an attractive protagonist, a village policeman who seldom deals with major...

"What Happened in Lambton" is a short story variant by Jennifer Kay on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was released in digital format, not dated. Change from the original story is minimal. Elizabeth and the Gardiners are on holiday in Lambton, Elizabeth and Darcy have accepted their...

FOUR OBSTINATE WOMEN is an anthology of four novellas by Kate Bedlow, each using characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I have published separate reviews of each novella. It was released in digital format in 2018. The collection includes THE WAGER (Mary Bennet), NOT ROMANTIC...

MRS. HURST AND THE HUNTSMAN is the third novella in Kate Bedlow's FOUR OBSTINATE WOMEN anthology of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. More accurately, it uses her characters' names. It was published in digital format in 2018. Louisa Bingley Hurst, visiting Pemberley with her family...

NOT ROMANTIC is the second novella in Kate Bedlow's FOUR OBSTINATE WOMEN anthology of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. The story is pleasant enough. Characters are reasonable extensions of Austen's originals. Only two major characters...

THE WAGER is the first novella in Kate Bedlow's FOUR OBSTINATE LADIES anthology of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Mary Bennet is the protagonist in THE WAGER, the canonical lovers playing secondary roles. Judgmental, convinced of her...

THE PLUMLEY INHERITANCE is the first book in Christopher Bush's Golden Era mystery series featuring Ludovic Travers. Originally published in 1926, it was reissued in digital format in 2017. Demobilized in July 1919, Major Geoffrey Wrentham returns to London in time to be present at the public...

ENCOUNTER AT PEMBERLEY is Margaret Gale's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When Fitzwilliam Darcy meets Elizabeth Bennet as she and the Gardiners visit Pemberley on their tour of Derbyshire, both regard it as a second chance. Darcy, based...

COLONEL FITZWILLIAM'S DILEMMA is the second book in Wendy Soliman's Mrs. Darcy Entertains series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When Lady Catherine de Bourgh writes to announce her imminent visit to Pemberley, ostensibly to...

DARCY'S MELODY is Jennifer Redlarczyk's novel-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Jane and Elizabeth Bennet, in London visiting the Gardiners, assist their Aunt Madeline Gardiner's charity work with Lady Eleanor Fitzwilliam, Countess...

STEADY TO HIS PURPOSE is Cassandra B. Leigh's novel-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. STEADY TO HIS PURPOSE is written in three parts, the longest covering the compromise to forced marriage of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth...

RACK, RUIIN AND MURDER is the second title in Ann Granger's Campbell and Carter police procedural series. Originally published in 2011, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. When elderly recluse Monty Bickerstaffe returns to his dilapidated home Balaclava House, he discovers a man's body...

CONSEQUENCE OF JEALOUSY is Aubrey Anderson's variant on Jane Austen's Pride ad Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Elizabeth Bennet spends a week at Netherfield to tend her ill sister, staying in Jane's bedroom as much as possible to avoid the criticism and scorn she feels...

Kara Louise's CHOICE AND CONSEQUENCE is a novel-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. When Charles Bingley arrives at Netherfield, Jane Bennet is touring with the Gardiners in the Lake District, where Jane meets, is attracted to, and...

TEACHINGS OF HIS FATHER is Kate Speck's novel using names and a few personalities from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in print and digital formats in 2018. Speck changes to the story line and most major characters are too extensive to classify it as a variant...

DEATH IN TRANSIT is the fifth and apparently final book in Keith Moray's Inspector Torquil McKinnon police procedural series set in Kyleshiffin, on West Uist in the Hebrides. Originally published in 2013, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. West Uist is overrun with "star people" drawn...

"Three Daughters Married" is Renata McMann's short story variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2014. ~~~SPOILERS~~~ The morning Fitzwilliam Darcy hands his letter of explanation to Elizabeth Bennet, Anne de Bourgh is found dead in her bed at...

A STAY AT PEMBERLEY is Caroline Bryant's novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017 and 2018. While the Gardiners and Elizabeth Bennet holiday in Lambton, Elizabeth receives a letter from Jane saying that George Wickham has eloped with Alice...

THE BLIND SIDE is the first book in Patricia Wentworth's Inspector Ernest Lamb mystery series, originally published in 1939. It was reissued in digital format in 2016. Wentworth's more familiar series features Miss Maud Silver who generally works in conjunction with Inspector Lamb and Sergeant...

Meg Osborne's AN ASSEMBLY AT BATH is the second novella in her Three Sisters from Hertfordshire series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. With Jane, Elizabeth, and Lydia all married, Mary, now engaged to Robert Ashton, and her parents...