![]() ![]() Her charmingly conceived murder mystery unfolds like a big soft comfort blanket just in time for the nights drawing in: the nation's best-loved crime writer and best-known romance in a magic meld, with Downtony moments below stairs, spooky moonlit bits and some police procedural thrown in for good measure. There have been lots of riffs on Austen's beloved novel over the years, including recent zombie and vampire mash-ups, but P D James has the advantage in having both the skill and the intelligence to hold her own in Austen's company. ![]() ![]() Then a carriage tears up to the door, Elizabeth's loud-mouthed sister Lydia emerges screaming, and soon a search party is sent out to discover a bloody corpse in the woods. Elizabeth and Darcy are the parents of two fine boys, Jane and Bingley have moved to live nearby, Mrs Bennet is a lengthy carriage ride away and at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent country house, silver is being polished and pastries baked in preparation for the annual ball. It is 1803, and the characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice have had six years in which to enjoy the happy ending of their story.
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