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Jane Austen is enjoying August, 1806, among Derbyshire's craggy peaks, sparkling streams, and cavernous gorges. That is, until she discovers the corpse of a young gentleman whose blond curls and delicate features suggest the face of an angel.
More shocking still is the coroner's revelation: the deceased is no man but a maidservant — clad in the garb of her master, Mr. Charles Danforth of Penfolds Hall. Tess Arnold had ruled the stillroom at Penfolds for many years — until she was labeled a witch and dismissed for indiscretion. Was Tess the prey of a madman loose in the hills, or perchance the cast-off impediment to a gentleman's marriage?
As usual, Jane's acute perception and her nose for trouble place her supremely at risk — from a killer who may strike as violently by day as he once did by night....
More shocking still is the coroner's revelation: the deceased is no man but a maidservant — clad in the garb of her master, Mr. Charles Danforth of Penfolds Hall. Tess Arnold had ruled the stillroom at Penfolds for many years — until she was labeled a witch and dismissed for indiscretion. Was Tess the prey of a madman loose in the hills, or perchance the cast-off impediment to a gentleman's marriage?
As usual, Jane's acute perception and her nose for trouble place her supremely at risk — from a killer who may strike as violently by day as he once did by night....
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is the fifth in the Jane Austen Mystery series. (The first is 'Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor',which is also very good.) Stephanie Barron has created a series of fictional mysteries with Jane Austen like a Regency Miss Marple, this is very convincingly done and she has researched Austen's life and also deals with some of the issues she faced. As such Austen fans may be interested in this series, but from a mystery point of view this book stands on its own merits. The story takes place in Derbyshire, where Jane visited in the Summer of 1806, and like most in this series the plot is complex and so therefore I found the pace a bit slow at times, but the ending was well worth the wait. I recommend this book to any fan of cosy/traditional or historical mysteries.
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I like Jane Austen and murder mysteries and hence thought that I could be in for a treat.
Some aspects of the book were good: the sense of time and place (mostly), some nice scenes and, for me, the pace and turns of the story.
Unfortunately, the usage of whole sentences from Austen's books, often in places where they didn't quite seem to go, jarred somewhat. These yanked me out of the story and into the real world.
I wasn't expecting a large number of real-life people to feature prominently in the book, bar Jane; this limited their relationships, the scope of the tale, and the list of possible suspects. I also found it a bit unnerving, but perhaps I'm just not used to semi-fictionalised books.
Some aspects of the book were good: the sense of time and place (mostly), some nice scenes and, for me, the pace and turns of the story.
Unfortunately, the usage of whole sentences from Austen's books, often in places where they didn't quite seem to go, jarred somewhat. These yanked me out of the story and into the real world.
I wasn't expecting a large number of real-life people to feature prominently in the book, bar Jane; this limited their relationships, the scope of the tale, and the list of possible suspects. I also found it a bit unnerving, but perhaps I'm just not used to semi-fictionalised books.
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It's the summer of 1806 and the Austen ladies are leaving Bath behind for a brief holiday in the Derbyshire Peaks before settling into their new life down in Southampton, after the sad death of Jane's father. It doesn't take long for the inimitable Jane to get itchy feet and want to explore the magnificent country around Bakewell, and it is on a fishing trip with her cousin and his friend, local solicitor George Hemming, that she stumbles upon a most gruesome sight. A body - shot and dismembered. At first, the party mistake the corpse for a gentleman, but it's soon revealed that it's a woman, the late stillroom maid of nearby Penfolds Hall.
And so Jane is pitched into another mystery - who laid in wait for the maid on the fell to shoot her, and who mutilated her body thereafter in the style of the secretive society of Freemasons? One of their members, someone trying to throw suspicion on them or someone with a grudge against the stillroom maid, for reasons yet undiscovered? The arrival of an old friend, the Gentleman Rogue, and her subsequent inclusion into the party at the grand Chatsworth estate, give Jane a glimpse into another world as she battles to try and deduce the real murderer before she must take her leave of Derbyshire.
Another excellent historical mystery in this series by Stephanie Barron. The author writes with a very good imitation of Austen's prose style and the inclusion of Lord Harold Trowbridge and his family, met in an earlier story, add an extra dimension of a peek into past grandeur whilst the mystery unfolds. There's also less of the rather irritating footnotes that were so prevalent in earlier books, which makes it easier to read. A good mystery/adventure.
And so Jane is pitched into another mystery - who laid in wait for the maid on the fell to shoot her, and who mutilated her body thereafter in the style of the secretive society of Freemasons? One of their members, someone trying to throw suspicion on them or someone with a grudge against the stillroom maid, for reasons yet undiscovered? The arrival of an old friend, the Gentleman Rogue, and her subsequent inclusion into the party at the grand Chatsworth estate, give Jane a glimpse into another world as she battles to try and deduce the real murderer before she must take her leave of Derbyshire.
Another excellent historical mystery in this series by Stephanie Barron. The author writes with a very good imitation of Austen's prose style and the inclusion of Lord Harold Trowbridge and his family, met in an earlier story, add an extra dimension of a peek into past grandeur whilst the mystery unfolds. There's also less of the rather irritating footnotes that were so prevalent in earlier books, which makes it easier to read. A good mystery/adventure.
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