Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over
the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.
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 Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba;
British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John
Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in
England really wanted.
Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide
revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with
suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of
Jane's fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly
crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and
old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane
trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking
again?