P.D. James
Grade: B-
Genre: crime / historical fiction / Austen-inspired
Source: own
TBR RBC 2015: A crime novel
Six years have passed since we
left Pride and Prejudice and all is
well: Elizabeth has transitioned into her role as the new mistress of Pemberley
perfectly and she and Darcy dote on their two young sons, Fitzwilliam and
Charles. She’s revived the annual Lady Anne’s ball, traditionally held to
celebrate the birthday of Darcy’s mother, but which had been dormant since her
death. Preparations are well into the final touches on the eve of the ball in
1803, when death comes suddenly and shockingly to Pemberley … It is Lydia Wickham,
Elizabeth’s younger, unreliable sister who brings the news in her usual state
of hysteria, believing that her husband, George Wickham, is dead. And so
follows an investigation that threatens to rock the Darcy family to its core …
