I loved the idea of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy confronted with a murder, and it was indeed a fun read. James succeeds in evoking the right atmosphere with the language that she uses and the style of her sentences (like Jane Austen). The story was rather weak, I thought, and a bit over dramatised, but ...
As Jane Austen fan-fic, this book is lots of fun. But as a P.D. James mystery, it's a total bust. And here's what I'll never get over: two men are wandering at night in the woods. One, or perhaps more, gunshots are heard by several people. One of the men is found dead, but the cause of death is a bl...