Bookstore owner Erin Coleridge seeks the scoundrel who silenced a conference\'s keynote speaker in Elizabeth Blake \'s second charming Jane Austen Society mystery.
She is a Hawthornden Fellow and Writer in Residence at Bydcliffe, Lacawac, and Karun Colonies..
She was a finalist in the McClaren, MSU, and Henrico Playwriting Competitions.
Agnes Poetry Award, she is a two time Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee and First Prize winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition, the Chronogram Literary Fiction Prize, Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award, and the Jean Paiva Memorial Fiction Award.
Winner of both the Euphoria Poetry Competition and the Eve of St.
Many of her works appear in translation internationally.
About author(s): Elizabeth Blake has written fifteen published novels, six novellas, and a dozen or so short stories and poems under other pseudonyms.
Dauntlessly, Erin joins forces with Kirkbymoorside\'s cat lady, Farnsworth, to ferret out the guilty party.
DI Hemming tries to persuade Erin that her entanglement in the murder investigation is far from sensible, but his entreaties come to naught.
Both Detective Inspector Peter Hemming and schoolteacher Jonathan Alder have made gestures of romantic interest, but Erin isn\'t sure who is her Willoughby and who is her Colonel Brandon.
Is one of them the culprit? Matters of the heart are putting Erin off her guard.
But who did him in? Was it the decedent\'s assistant, Stephen, who was observed chatting to Barry\'s young wife Luca earlier that night? Might it have been Barry\'s ex-wife Judith, who was seen arguing with her erstwhile betrothed at the bar? Meanwhile, conference co-chairs Hetty and Prudence have been at one another\'s throat since the conference.
Erin is suspicious, since Barry had no history of heart disease.
When the quaint English town of York hosts a Jane Austen Society conference, bookseller Erin Coleridge is glad to get out of Kirkbymoorside for a while--until featured speaker Barry Wolf suddenly perishes from what appears to be a heart attack.
Bookstore owner Erin Coleridge seeks the scoundrel who silenced a conference\'s keynote speaker in Elizabeth Blake \'s second charming Jane Austen Society mystery
