Or, perhaps, the killer was Sylvia’s own cuckolded husband, Jerome. The long suspect list includes Sylvia’s lover Kurt Becker and his tightly wound wife Suzanne. Handsome-but shy-Detective Inspector Peter Hadley and charismatic Sergeant Rashid Jarral arrive at the scene. Poisoned? Presumably.but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target? After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder-with extreme prejudice-when president Sylvia Pemberthy falls dead to the floor. At the Society’s monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. In this Austen-tatious debut, antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.Įrin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. Perfect for fans of Laura Levine and Stephanie Barron, Elizabeth Blake’s Jane Austen Society mystery debut is a mirthfully morbid merger of manners and murder.
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