Cleverly working with documented events and characters from Jane Austen's life, this is a page-turner of a murder mystery with added jeopardy and left me wanting to turn back to my Austen biographies to find out more! 

It's 1795 and the only thing on Jane's mind is whether Tom Lefroy is going to propose at the local ball.

But then there's the shocking discovery of a milliner's lifeless body in a closet and the tragic event has consequences the Austen family could never have envisaged.

Jane's younger brother Georgy is implicated in the crime and Jane takes it upon herself to clear his name. If she doesn't succeed the consequences are profound.

I do like a murder mystery and this was wonderfully pitched with a period setting, our familiar and admirable heroine, and just the right mix of wry humour and fear and trepidation.