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A TRIP TO BRIGHTON is fourteenth in Jennifer Lang's Darcy and Elizabeth What If? series of novellas based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Both Darcy and Elizabeth are depressed following their encounter at Hunsford. Lydia, however, is elated at...

ELIZABETH BENNET'S IMPERTINENT LETTER is J. P. Christy's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. What if after his proposal at Hunsord, instead of Darcy's writing Elizabeth a letter of explanation, she wrote him of her conclusions about his...

DARCY VS. BENNET is Victoria Kincaid's 2016 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It is available in digital format. Think Pride and Prejudice rewritten with Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet as Romeo and Juliet. They meet at a masquerade ball that Elizabeth crashed, dance, and...

NTRIGUE AT THE BALL is the second book in Penelope Swan's Dark Darcy mystery series based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. Each book consists of a mystery (both to date involving highwayman "Wicked George," here identified as Wickham) tied to the...

DEATHLY WIND is the second book in Keith Moray's police procedural series featuring Inspector Torquil McKinnon of the West Uist Division, Hebrides Constabulary. Originally published in 2007, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. After compassionate leave following the death of a former...

MANSFIELD PARSONAGE is Kyra C. Kramer's variant on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, retelling the story from Mary Crawford's point of view. It was published in digital format in 2016. Mansfield Park is my least favorite Austen novel, so I hoped to enjoy a version with a more appealing protagonist...

"It's in His Kiss" is a short story by Lady Waller, a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in e-book format in 2017. Minutes after his disastrous Hunsford proposal to Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy returns to the parsonage to explain his relationship with George...

"How to Rescue a Lady" is Gisèlle Vézelay's short story variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2018. Action is easily summarized. Darcy comes to Longbourn three days after the ball at Netherfield, determined to explain George...

ELIZABETH'S CHOICE is Gianna Thomas's sequel to her 2016's Darcy Chooses, a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2018. Unless to establish the connection between the two adaptations, I see no significance of the title. Darcy and...

Keith Moray's THE GATHERING MURDERS is the first in his Inspector Torquil McKinnon police procedurals set on West Uist, one of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It is available in free or inexpensive digital format. Before the opening of the West Uist Gathering and Literary Festival, an elderly woman...

TO LOVE MR. DARCY is Martine J. Roberts's 2016 variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. The morning after the Netherfield ball, Fitzwilliam Darcy visits to ask her father for Elizabeth Bennet in marriage. Mr. Bennet consents and, when Elizabeth...

PRIDE AND PROPOSALS, by Victoria Kincaid, is one of the more interesting variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam unexpectedly inherits Hargrave Manor and a small fortune from a maternal aunt; he immediately proposes...

"The Chocolate War" is a Bruno, Chief of Police, short story published digitally in 2018 by Martin Walker,. Léopold, a Sengalese stall holder for years in St. Denis's Tuesday market, and Cali, his nephew from Paris, introduce quality coffees and chocolate imported from Africa. Not are these...

THE COMPANION OF MY FUTURE LIFE, written by Jack Caldwell, is a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2013. Change from Austen's original is minimal. Over half the text appears lifted bodily from Austen, including most of the dialogue. The most...

DEADLY GAMES is the fifth book in Rich Curtin's police procedural series featuring Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera of Moab, Grand County, Utah. It was published digitally in 2015. To free funding for a Department of the Interior equipment contract, Wallace Lamont, chairman of Harkness and Lamont...

LONDON HOLIDAY is Nicole Clarkston's variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. To force the marriage between her nephew and daughter Anne, having suborned his London servants, Lady Catherine de Bourgh drugs Fitzwilliam Darcy to set up a compromise...

"Immovable Dislike" is a short story included with INSPIRED REFLECTIONS and HUNSFORD REDUX in Cassandra B. Leigh's Kindle bundle of novella variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in 2018. Darcy is outraged when Elizabeth Bennet takes him to task over the behavior that...

HUNSFORD REDUX is the second novella in Cassandra B. Leigh's Kindle bundle with INSPIRED REFLECTIONS and "Immovable Dislike," published in 2018. Variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, all three center on Darcy's disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet. The only important change in...

INSPIRED REFLECTIONS is a novella, the title piece in Cassandra B. Leigh's Kindle bundle with HUNSFORD REDUX and "Immovable Dislike." All are variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The collection was published in 2018. The most important change in INSPIRED REFLECTIONS is in the timing...

DARCY VS LADY CATHERINE is the second in Gianna Thomas's Darcy Versus series of novellas based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. When at the Meryton assembly Elizabeth Bennet overhears his insult and confronts Fitzwilliam Darcy for his poor...