![]() I enjoyed reading Death Comes to Pemberley. ![]() ![]() She lays trails involving Darcy family history and the household servants but, most cleverly, uses the various loose ends left by Jane Austen at the end of Pride and Prejudice to conjure a web of motives linking the characters from that book. Out tumbles Lydia Wickham, saying her husband has been murdered in the woods.įrom this point on, James is on familiar ground, as the magistrates and constables and the sinister doctor with an interest in experimenting on dead bodies congregate to examine Lydia’s claim and the body which inevitably turns up. In an opening scene worthy of Wilkie Collins, a recklessly driven chaise arrives at Pemberley in the middle of a storm. They are now neighbours in Derbyshire, and the book opens with the gathering of family and friends at Pemberley for a ball. It is 1803, and the Darcys and the Bingleys have been happily married for six years. James has combined her love of Miss Austen’s writing with her own consummate skill as a teller of murder stories to bring us Death Comes to Pemberley. ![]() Following the current fashion for new fictions derived from the works of Jane Austen, P.D. ![]()
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