Talk about optimism. If you were to write an historical mystery series, exactly how wise would you think it to choose one of the most elegant prose stylists in the English language as your mouthpiece? Stephanie Barron (a native of Colorado) has chosen Jane Austen, and is every bit as successful as you'd expect - not at all. Amusingly she's chosen to make this a first person narrative. I can say no more, good sire - prithee be warned, there is a predecessor, one known as Jane And The Unpleasantness At Scargrave Manor, in paper covers. Would that it was not so.
