Jane and His Lordship's Legacy: Being a Jane Austen Mystery, Book 8
Written by Stephanie Barron
Narrated by Kate Reading
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It's with a heavy heart that Jane Austen takes up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the lost love of her life, she's stunned to learn that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, letters, and most intimate correspondence. From these, Jane is expected to write a memoir of the Gentleman Rogue for posterity. But before she can put pen to paper on this labor of love, she discovers a corpse in the cellar of her new home.
The dead man was a common laborer, and a subsequent coroner's examination shows he was murdered elsewhere and transported to Chawton Cottage. Suddenly Jane and her family are thrust into the center of a brewing scandal in this provincial village that doesn't take kindly to outsiders in general-and to Austens in particular.
And just as Jane glimpses a connection between the murder and the shattering truth concealed somewhere in Lord Harold's papers, violent death strikes yet another unsuspecting vicitim. Suddenly there are suspects and motives everywhere Jane looks-local burglaries, thwarted passions, would-be knights, and members of the royal family itself who want Lord Harold hushed . . . even in death. As the tale of one man's illustrious life unfolds-a life that runs a parallel course to the history of two continents-Jane races against time to catch a cunning killer before more innocent lives are taken. But her determination to protect Lord Harold's legacy could exact the costliest price of all: her own life.
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy is historical suspense writing at its very finest, graced with insight, perception, and uncommon intelligence of its singular heroine in a mystery that will test the mettle of her mind and heart.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I wanted to like these jane austen books - but they were not jane austen
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the 8th book in this series and I still consider it to be an engrossing one. Having Jane Austen as it's sleuth certainly lends a credibility to the series. I find that the characters are well written and the plotting is fairly complex in these books. In this book Jane is trying to recover from the loss of her paramour, Harold Trowbridge. The Earl has left all his papers to Jane in the hopes that she will use what is in this collection to pen a history of his life. Jane finds out that this posthumous request places her and her family in some peril and that people are being murdered around her. It is the threat of the secrets that may be revealed from these papers that causes all this. Jane manages to figure out what and why all this is occurring, Reading this book was a great deal of fun and I look forward to continuing the series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5mystery, historical mystery, Jane Austen, England, Chawton Cottage, murder, detective, small town, secrets, Jane Austen series 8
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Without giving too much away about the series, Ms. Barron continues to include a most beloved character in this novel, despite the events of the last. Once again, motive is everything - and the finding out of true motives is essential to teasing out the solution to the mystery.