Jane Austen Mysteries

Christmas Eve, 1814. Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at the Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide gathering dies in a tragic accident whose circumstances Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snowbound guests. With clues scattered amid cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?

The thirteenth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Between novels, Victorian England's most beloved author doubles as a sleuth in often idyllic locales. November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has left the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, is about to declare bankruptcy. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside. While she is there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to Carlton House, the Prince's fabulous London home. Jane only accepts because many of Henry's bad loans were given by the Prince Regent's cronies. She hopes to intercede with the Regent on Henry's behalf, but before she can speak to him, she stumbles upon a dying man in the library--Colonel Ivor MacFarland, who with a knife in his entrails utters a single failing phrase: the Waterloo map... and Jane is on the hunt for a treasure of incalculable value, and a killer of considerable cunning. Praise for Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas.

If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further... [Barron] has painstakingly sifted through the famed author's letters and writings, as well as extensive biographical information, to create a finely detailed portrait of Austen's life - with a dash of fictional murder... Some of the most enjoyable, well-written fanfic ever created. - O Magazine May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript - about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain - cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits earned from her last novel, Emma, and treat herself to a period of rest and reflection at the spa, in the company of her sister, Cassandra. Cheltenham Spa hardly turns out to be the relaxing sojourn Jane and Cassandra envisaged, however. It is immediately obvious that other boarders at the guest house where the Misses Austen are staying have come to Cheltenham with stresses of their own - some of them deadly. But perhaps with Jane's interference a terrible crime might be prevented. Set during the Year without a Summer, when the eruption of Mount Tambora in the South Pacific caused a volcanic winter that shrouded the entire planet for sixteen months, this fourteenth installment in Stephanie Barron's critically acclaimed series brings a forgotten moment of Regency history to life.

The final volume of the fan-favorite and critically acclaimed Being a Jane Austen mystery series Since the publication of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, the first novel in the Being a Jane Austen mystery series, Stephanie Barron has offered readers a pitch-perfect rendering of the great author as indomitable amateur sleuth. The series' fifteen novels have brought to life fifteen years of Jane's career and Regency milieu, infusing each murder investigation with rich period detail drawn from the author's own letters. But now it is the spring of 1817, and Janeites know that the great author's story is drawing to a close. Jane's health has taken a turn for the worse, threatening to cease progress on her latest manuscript. When her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, the elite Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth, especially since it means clearing the name of a dear family friend. Jane takes up lodging near the idyllic college in order to untangle the duplicitous testimonies that surround the prefect's untimely demise. But Winchester College is a world unto itself, with its own language and rites of passage, cruel hazing and dangerous pranks. Can she discover the truth before her illness gets the better of her? Fighting against time and her failing body, Jane has one last chance to apply her magnificent skills of deduction to the pursuit of justice.