num_pages: 361
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
titlecomplete: Jane and the Genius of the Place (Jane Austen Mysteries, #4)
characters: Jane
genres: Cozy Mystery, Historical, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Womens, Mystery, Regency, British Literature, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 2305
places: Canterbury, Kent, England, Kent, England
series: Jane Austen Mysteries
publisher: Bantam