The Matters at Mansfield: Or, The Crawford Affair
by:
Carrie Bebris (author)
Jane Austen meets Anne Perry in a historical mystery series featuring the hero and heroine from Pride and PrejudiceFollowing the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying life at Pemberley, but family commitments draw them away to Mansfield Park....
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Jane Austen meets Anne Perry in a historical mystery series featuring the hero and heroine from Pride and PrejudiceFollowing the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying life at Pemberley, but family commitments draw them away to Mansfield Park. While there, the Darcys get involved with marriage arrangements, star-crossed lovers, deceit, mistaken identity, and even murder.Once again the Darcys take center stage as the Regency era's answer to The Thin Man's Nick and Nora in this delightful series by the 2007 Daphne du Maurier Award-winning author of North by Northanger.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780765318473 (0765318474)
Publish date: September 2nd 2008
Publisher: Forge Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Crime,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Regency,
Cozy Mystery
Series: Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries (#4)
This was the first Mr and Mrs Darcy mystery by Bebris I read, which may account for my affection for it. I'm not claiming Bebris is Austen's peer in writing, but I think any book I enjoyed as much as this deserves high marks. I enjoyed the Darcys' company quite a bit here, and this is a good solid r...
Excellent read. This is the first book in this series that did not have a supernatural/paranormal element to the plot line and was instead a straightforward murder mystery - although there was nothing straight forward about this murder! LOTS of twists and turns, with a runaway ending, this book mi...
This was a great book. This was one of my favorites in the series. Soon after the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Darcy visit Mansfield Park, where they get caught up in intrigue involving mistaken identities and sudden disappearances more suited to a bedroom farce than anything in the A...