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Murder Most Persuasive: A Mystery by Tracy Kiely – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 31 August 2011 | 2 Comments »

Guest Review by Aia A. Hussein Following in the footsteps of her previous works Murder at Longbourn and Murder on the Bride’s Side, author Tracy Kiely has just released Murder Most Persuasive. Wherein she previously drew plot inspiration from such Jane Austen classics as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, in this new mystery [...]

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Preview of Midnight in Austenland: A Novel, by Shannon Hale

Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , on 13 June 2011 | 10 Comments »

In 2007 bestselling young adult novelist Shannon Hale ventured into adult fiction and brought us the enchanting Austenland – a trip to a fantasy vacation resort in England with a Regency theme. The heroine Jane Hayes gets a chance to live her “secret addiction to the 1995 A&E television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and [...]

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Murder on the Bride’s Side, by Tracy Kiely – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 16 September 2010 | 9 Comments »

An old Richmond, Virginia plantation, a festive wedding and family disputes set the stage for murder in Tracy Kiely’s novel Murder on the Bride’s Side, the second novel in the Elizabeth Parker mystery series inspired by Jane Austen’s classic novels. A year ago, Kiely wowed me with her debut novel Murder at Longbourn loosely based [...]

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Inspector Lewis: The Dead of Winter on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , , , on 5 September 2010 | 89 Comments »

Inspector Lewis continues tonight on Masterpiece Mystery with another new episode of the popular detective series based in Oxford where the death toll since its predecessor Inspector Morse hit the airwaves in 1987 must place this small college town as the epicenter of “malice aforethought” in England. The Dead of Winter involves sad connections to [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for August 2010

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 3 August 2010 | 15 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in August, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Audio The Convenient Marriage, by Georgette Heyer, read by Richard Armitage In honor of historical romance novelist Georgette Heyer’s birthday this month, I am sure [...]

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Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 31 July 2010 | 13 Comments »

Mansfield Park is considered (by some) to be the dark horse of Jane Austen’s oeuvre and her heroine Fanny Price intolerable. Poor Fanny. She really gets the bum’s rush in Austenland. The patron saint of the weak, insipid and downtrodden, she is Jane Austen’s most misunderstood heroine. In fact, many dispute if she is the [...]

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