Pride, Prejudice, and Poison: A Jane Austen Society Mystery Audiobook (Free)

Perfect for fans of Laura Levine and Stephanie Barron, Elizabeth Blake’s Jane Austen Society secret debut is a mirthfully morbid merger of manners and murder.

In this Austen-tatious debut, antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her feeling and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.

Erin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England, is a gathering place for the villagers and, in particular, for the neighborhood Jane Austen about Pride, Prejudice, and Poison: A Jane Austen Culture Mystery Society. In the Society’s regular monthly conference, matters arrive to a head between the old guard and its own young turks. Following the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder?with extreme prejudice?when chief executive Sylvia Pemberthy falls deceased to the ground. Poisoned? Presumably … but by whom? And was Sylvia the only target?

Handsome?but timid?Detective Inspector Peter Hemming and charismatic Sergeant Rashid Jarral arrive at the picture. The long believe list includes Sylvia’s fan Kurt Becker and his tightly wound wife Suzanne. Or, perhaps, the killer was Sylvia’s very own cuckolded hubby, Jerome. Among the many Society members and also require had her in their places is usually dashing Jonathan Alder, who was simply heard creating a royal fight of words using the past due president the night before.

After that, when Jonathan Alder narrowly avoids becoming the next victim, Farnsworth (the town’s “kitty female”) persuades a significantly time-crunched Erin to greatly help DI Hemming. But the killer is even more devious than anyone imagines.