num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Jane and the Genius of the Place
publisher: Bantam