Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron

Now, in Stephanie Barron’s third superb Jane Austen Mystery, the beloved author embarks on her most perplexing case…Īs misplaced passions, festering malice, and the desire for revenge serve to conceal the true motives for murder. Jane Austen’s potential as a brilliant sleuth was delightfully revealed in Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor and deliciously underscored in Jane and the Man of the Cloth. Now, it falls to Jane to entrap and expose the notorious Reverend…Įven if the evidence points to the last person on earth she wants to suspect…Ī man who already may have won her heart. The worthies of Lyme are certain his death is the work of ‘the Reverend,’ the ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade whose identity is the town’s paramount mystery. Sidmouth seek to hide? Jane suspects the worst but her attention is swiftly diverted when a man is discovered hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea.

And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. The second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis.

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. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help.

Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it’s only the beginning of her misfortune…Īs she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl’s nephew of adultery and murder. The Earl’s death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Isobel’s husband a gentleman of mature years is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave ManorĪ marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!

Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron