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Pride, Prejudice, and Poison
(2019)(The first book in the Jane Austen Society Mystery series)
A novel by Elizabeth Blake
This Austen-tatious cozy mystery debut is a mirthfully morbid merger of manners and murderperfect for fans of Laura Levine and Stephanie Barron.
In a quaint English village, an antique bookstore proprietor uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.
Erin Coleridges used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Societys monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murderwith extreme prejudicewhen president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably . . . but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?
Handsomebut shyDetective Inspector Peter Hadley and charismatic Sergeant Rashid Jarral arrive at the scene. The long suspect list includes Sylvias lover Kurt Becker and his tightly wound wife Suzanne. Or, perhaps, the killer was Sylvias own cuckolded husband, Jerome. Among the many Society members who may have had her in their sights is dashing Jonathan Alder, who was heard having a royal battle of words with the late president the night before.
Then, when Jonathan Alder narrowly avoids becoming the next victim, Farnsworth (the towns cat lady) persuades a seriously time-crunched Erin to help DI Hadley. But the killer is more devious than anyone imagines.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
In a quaint English village, an antique bookstore proprietor uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.
Erin Coleridges used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Societys monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murderwith extreme prejudicewhen president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. Poisoned? Presumably . . . but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?
Handsomebut shyDetective Inspector Peter Hadley and charismatic Sergeant Rashid Jarral arrive at the scene. The long suspect list includes Sylvias lover Kurt Becker and his tightly wound wife Suzanne. Or, perhaps, the killer was Sylvias own cuckolded husband, Jerome. Among the many Society members who may have had her in their sights is dashing Jonathan Alder, who was heard having a royal battle of words with the late president the night before.
Then, when Jonathan Alder narrowly avoids becoming the next victim, Farnsworth (the towns cat lady) persuades a seriously time-crunched Erin to help DI Hadley. But the killer is more devious than anyone imagines.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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