Murder Most Austen: A Mystery
In the fourth installment of this series, Elizabeth Parker is going to a Jane Austen festival in Bath with her Aunt Winnie. They are annoyed by a man on their flight also headed to the event who has new theories about Austen’s dark secrets. At the masquerade ball, that man is found murdered after a conversation with a person in an Elizabeth Bennet mask. Aunt Winnie’s old friend Cora is accused. Cora’s daughter, Izzy, befriends Elizabeth but has her own agenda. Elizabeth attends the festival in between asking questions and finding another body. The setting for this volume is fresh and will attract new readers to the series. The plot is clever, and Elizabeth and Aunt Winnie continue to appeal. Austen fiction fans will like this, along with Joanna Campbell Slan’s new Charlote Bronte series and titles from G. M. Malliet. --Amy Alessio