Henry Carter Hull

Jane Austen moves to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire to mourn her lost love, where she finds a large chest filled with the late Lord Harold Trowbridge's diaries, letters, and personal correspondence and orders to write a memoir of Trowbride, but before she can begin her writing, she finds a dead body and uncovers an even larger mystery than the one she is already dealing with.

Jane Austen finds herself in the role of a sleuth when a theatre manager is murdered and her investigation uncovers a bewildering array of suspects, motives, and unpredictable entanglements.

"The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield...