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Feb 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780553578393 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jan 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307486530 Buy
May 19, 2020 | 667 Minutes Buy
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Feb 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780553578393
Jan 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307486530
May 19, 2020 | ISBN 9780593342848
667 Minutes
For everyone who loves Jane Austen…The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth!In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal—but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds. A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise. While many urge the arrest of a known scoundrel with eyes for the victim, Jane looks further afield and finds a number of acquaintances behaving oddly.As rumors spread like wildfire that Napoleon’s fleet is bound for Kent, Jane suspects that the murder was an act of war rather than a crime of passion. Suddenly the peaceful fields of Kent are a very dangerous place…and Jane’s thirst for justice may exact the steepest price of all—her life.
In three highly diverting mysteries, Jane Austen has shown herself a clever hand at unraveling the deadly knots woven by the unscrupulous. Now, in her latest engrossing adventure, Jane is called upon to solve a shattering crime that may begin and end in one man’s heart–or encompass the fate of an entire nation.In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable go to gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal. But even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that ensues when a raven-haired wanton in a scarlet riding habit takes center stage. She is Françoise Grey, a flamboyant French beauty who has cast a spell over the gentlemen of Kent…and her unbridled behavior at the races invites the most scandalous speculation.What can Mrs. Grey be thinking, Jane wonders, to so brazenly strike a gentleman with her whip? And what recklessness then spurs her to leap the rail on her fleet black horse and join the race? Only hours after Mrs. Grey has departed the race grounds in triumph will Jane realize the full import of her questions. For in a shabby chaise less than a hundred feet from where Jane sat, the impossible is revealed: Mrs. Grey’s lifeless body, gruesomely strangled, her ruby riding habit nowhere to be found.As those around her rush to arrest the owner of the chaise–a known scoundrel with eyes for Françoise–Jane looks further afield to find a number of others behaving oddly, including the dashing military man caught rifling through the dead woman’s desk, the widower who does not appear to be grieving, and the shy governess curiously overpowered by the horror of the Frenchwoman’s death.As rumors spread like wildfire that Napoleon’s fleet is bound for Kent, Jane begins to suspect that Françoise Grey’s murder was an act of war rather than a crime of passion. The peaceful fields of Kent have become a very dangerous place…and Jane’s thirst for justice may exact the steepest price of all–her life.Deliciously sinister and splendidly wrought, Jane and the Genius of the Place is a stylish puzzler that only the incomparable Jane Austen could hope to crack. And in her capable hands, the solving of it is a pleasure to watch.
Stephanie Barron is the author of the standalone historical suspense novels A Flaw in the Blood and The White Garden, as well as the Jane Austen mystery series. As Francine Mathews, she is the author of several novels of espionage, including… More about Stephanie Barron
"Barron does a wonderful job of evoking the great British estates and the woes of spinsters living in that era… often echoing the rhythms of the Austen novels with uncanny ease."—Entertainment Weekly"Jane [is] a subtle but determined sleuth."—Chicago Tribune"This is perhaps the best ‘Jane’ yet."—Chicago Tribune
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