Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the Twelve Days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.
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She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Since then, she has written twenty-five books, including five novels in the Merry Folger series (Death in the Off-Season, Death in Rough Water, Death in a Mood Indigo, Death in a Cold Hard Light, and Death on Nantucket) as well as the nationally bestselling Being a Jane Austen mystery series, which she writes under the penname Stephanie Barron.
She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later.
She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA.
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?About the Author: Francine Mathews was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls.
If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane\'s fellow snow-bound guests.
One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion.
Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting.
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.
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.
Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the Twelve Days of a Regency-Era Christmas party
