The Matters at Mansfield: or, the Crawford Affair (Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery, #4)

by Carrie Bebris

Following the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying life at Pemberley, but a family crisis draws them away to Mansfield Park. There, the Darcys become ensnared in a complex game of marriage machinations, star-crossed lovers, deceit, mistaken identity, and murder. Once again the Darcys take centre stage as the Regency era's answer to The Thin Man's Nick and Nora in this delightful series by the 2007 Daphne du Maurier Award winning author of "North by Northanger".

• ISBN10: 0765358034
• ISBN13: 9780765358035
• Publish Date: 29 September 2009 (first published 2 September 2008)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 30 April 2014
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Tor Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

Excellent read. This is the first book in this series that did not have a supernatural/paranormal element to the plot line and was instead a straightforward murder mystery - although there was nothing straight forward about this murder! LOTS of twists and turns, with a runaway ending, this book might be my favorite one yet. I like the way the author incorporates characters from Jane Austen's other books and I love the respect she shows for Jane Austen's characters as a whole. Nobody is going to be able to write Elizabeth and Darcy like Ms. Austen, but Ms. Bebris comes close - I always feel like I'm reading about the Ms. Austen's characters - not someone else's interpretation of them.

Looking forward to the next one.