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THE BEST OF RELATIONS is Catherine Bilson's novella-length variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2014. THE BEST OF RELATIONS opens with an exchange of letters between Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt Mrs. Madeline Gardiner. Not only is Fitzwilliam...

THE DARLING DAHLIAS AND THE CUCUMBER TREE is the first book in Susan Wittig Albert's Darling Dahlias series of cozy mysteries set in Darling, Alabama (near Monroeville). For the record, cucumber tree is a common name for Magnolia acuminata, so-called because after flowering, the tree produces...

Jennifer Joy's THE INSEPARABLE MR. AND MRS. DARCY is the final volume in her Meryton Mystery series based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Life is good again in Meryton. Jane and Charles Bingley, along with Charlotte Lucas and Colonel Richard...

Sue Hubbell's memoir of her life as a professional beekeeper in the Missouri Ozarks was originally published in 1999 and reissued in digital format in 2017. It is a Kindle bestseller, deservedly so. In A COUNTRY YEAR, Hubbell observes herself and nature around her as she pursues an independent...

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGES is Wendy Ann Gallant's retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. In a carriage accident which kills Mr. Bennet, Jane suffers facial lacerations that leave her scarred for life, while Elizabeth's broken legs leave her with...

THE SUNKEN SAILOR is the second book in Patricia Moyes's long-running mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett of Scotland Yard. Originally published in 1961, it was reissued in digital format in 2018. Henry and Emmy Tibbett plan a quiet fortnight's holiday with friends Alistair...

LOVE AND LAUGHTER is an anthology of short story variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, all written by Lela Eye and Jann Rowland. It was published in digital format in 2016. Eye's contributions are "The Brother's Admiration," in which Georgiana Darcy at the Netherfield Ball explains to...

DEAD ON ARRIVALis the sixth book in Dorothy Simpson's Inspector Thanet police procedural mystery series set in Sturrenden, Kent, England. Originally published in 1986, it was reprinted in 1995 in the Second Inspector Thanet Omnibus. It has apparently not been digitized, but the Omnibus is...

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A SHORT PERIOD OF EXQUISITE FELICITY is A D'Orazio's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was released in digital format in 2018. The essential premise of A SHORT PERIOD OF EXQUISITE FELICITY is that in August 1812 when the Gardiners and Elizabeth Bennet visited Derbyshire, Darcy...

WHISPER TO THE BLOOD is the sixteenth book in Dana Stabenow's long-running Kate Shugak mystery series. It was published in digital and print formats in 2009. Global Harvest Resources, Incorporated, discovers a massive gold and rare minerals deposit at Iqaluk in the Park near Niniltna, where...

LOVER'S KNOT is Jenna James's recent variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. While staying at Netherfield to nurse Jane, Elizabeth Bennet discovers the body of young new-hire footman Tom Partridge, stabbed to death. With no motive apparent and...

FEBRUARY'S FILES is the second book in Rich Curtin's series set in the Four Corners area around Moab, Utah. Its protagonist is Grand County Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2012. When the bones of retired investigative journalist February...

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND A SHAKESPEAREAN SCHOLAR is Regina Jeffers variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Thomas Bennet is a renowned authority on the works of William Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon, involved in academic controversy to...

COLD POISON is one of Stuart Palmer's famous mystery series featuring Miss Hildegarde Withers, a former New York school teacher turned amateur sleuth, and Inspector Oscar Piper of the NYPD. It was originally published in 1954 and reissued in digital format in 2013. Miss Withers, retired to Los...

Alyssa Jefferson's WHAT TIME HAS DONE is a variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in free or inexpensive digital format in 2018. While traveling in the Lake District on holiday, the Gardiners and Elizabeth Bennet are summoned to Longbourn forthwith. Lydia Bennet has...

Margaret Gale's A SINGER IN THE WOODS is another variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Change from the original novel is minimal. While visiting Charlotte Collins at Hunsford, on an early morning walk in a grove near Rosings, Elizabeth Bennet...

A SEASON OF COURTSHIP is the first book in Sharon Lathan's Darcy Saga series of variants on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was issued in digital format in 2014. Lathan changes little of the original story line, instead developing Elizabeth and Darcy's emotional lives. The action begins a...

ARTIFACTS OF DEATH is the first novel in Rich Curtin's series featuring Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera of Moab, in Grand County, Utah. It was published in digital format in 2010. Curtin's writing style needs work. It's very simple, with chunks of exposition and characterization that impede the...

MISS BENNET AND THE BEAST is April Floyd's non-fairy tale variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2018. Following the wedding of Jane and Bingley, Elizabeth Bennet travels to Lambton with the Gardiners for a summer-long visit to Madeline Gardiner's...