This was a great book. I was enthralled by what the author imagine had happened during the days that stand between Virginia woolf’s drowning on March 28th, 1941,and the discovery of her body on the river Ouse’s banks near her home on April 18, 1941 . Superb imagination!It is an unbelievable st...
"In Memoriam: White GardenI said she was a moth, fluttered spirit, delicate;/ That bumped against the lamp of life. No mention made/ Of how they tortured her, prey to nameless fears,/ With such exact descriptions of the night;/ Its quality, deception, unnumbered shades of grey;/ Crept in to suffo...
I enjoyed the first two-thirds of the book very much. I spent time near Sissinghurst and the White Garden itself is something I've always wanted to replicate. That was what drew me to the book to begin with, though I am also interested in the Bloomsbury Group, and I have learned to relish Stephan...
It is the fall of 1808 and Jane Austen and her family are in mourning after the sudden death of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Austen, the elegant and enchanting thirty-five year old wife of Jane’s elder brother Edward and mother of eleven children. To entertain the two eldest boys while they stay with her in...
In 1804, Jane Austen is resigned to a lackluster Christmas season in Bath with her family, until she receives a commission from Lord Harold Trowbridge. The Gentleman Rogue and Jane’s friend and ally through two recent criminal investigations, Lord Harold requests Jane bring her considerable power...
In the winter of 1807, we find Jane Austen in the seaport of Southampton living in hired lodgings while her brother Francis Austen’s new residence is made ready for them at Castle Square. The Austen women (Jane, sister Cassandra, their widowed mother and a dear family friend Martha Lloyd), will a...
Hooray for a book I loved! The concept sounds a little funny... Jane Austen as a accidental detective, but it worked. She was obviously a witty and bright woman so the thought of her curiosities being peaked to the point of investigation didn't seem so far fetched to me.The author must be a Jan...
The Stephanie Barron series of mysteries casting Jane Austen herself as the crime-solving heroine continue in this the seventh installment.Here, Jane is mourning (secretly) the death of Lord Harold, with whom she has has a friendship and unrequited love over the earlier books. At the same time, s...
A fascinating Jane Austen inspired Regency mystery involving horseracing, French spies and the "improvement of the estate"In the summer of 1805, we find Jane Austen visiting her wealthy brother Edward and his large family at their palatial country estate Godmersham Park in Kent, enjoying the comf...
On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband—a gentleman of mature years—is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Iso...
"You are a formidable lady, are you not, Aunt Jane?" she asked wistfully. "When I was a child, I was used to think you were like a good faerie- always dropping out of the sky with your delightful stories, and dolls-clothes you embroidered so neatly; playing at cricket regardless of the stains th...
