Duplicate copy of a book on Mt. TBR. My friend (BC user hamletkitty) was doing some last-minute downsizing, and I volunteered this one off her hands.

First in the series.
[will include the rest of the list at a later date]

Description from back cover:
"If Jane Austen had turned her formidable wit and powers of observation to sleuthing before establishing herself as the major literary figure we know and love, then surely she would have been every inch the detective that Barron has created...

To Jane Austen's surprise, her visit to the snowy Hertfordshire estate of young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave will be far from dull. She has scarcely arrived when the Earl--a gentleman of mature years--is felled by a mysterious ailment too agonizing and violent to credit to a fondness for claret and pudding. Scargrave's death seems a cruel blow of fate for Isobel, married but 3 months. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl's nephew of adultery--and murder.

Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her and Viscount Fitzroy Payne, for whom she bears a secret *tendresse*, to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs her friend Jane for help. And Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that leads all the way to Newgate Prison and the House of Lords--a trail that may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy."

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Bringing to the BookCrossing meeting.

I didn't read it, but I have found something to do with it.

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I left this just inside the door of the fire station in a large bag of books. I hope the firemen enjoy the reads. In honor of 9/11.