It is a windy, moonlit night, but Colonel Fitzwilliam takes his leave for his nightly exercise, a ride along the river. Reynolds the housekeeper and the staff are busy preparing for the large formal gathering while the family dine and later meet in the music room. Many county families will be in attendance. All have gathered for Lady Anne’s ball, an annual event in honor of Mr.
Life is orderly and good at Pemberley, as long as one stays out of the haunted woodland.ĭarcy’s younger, and still unmarried, sister Georgiana is also in residence being courted by two beaux: her cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, and the young, ambitious, but dishy attorney, Henry Alveston. Elizabeth has settled in as chatelaine to a large estate and mother to two young sons. Both sisters and their husbands are at Pemberley, the palatial country estate of the Darcys in Derbyshire, whose grandeur is only equal to the ten thousand a year that it generates for its previously haughty master and decidedly opinionated mistress. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters in marriage: Jane to Charles Bingley and Elizabeth to Fitzwilliam Darcy. It is six years since the happy day on which Mrs. To say that my “wishes and hopes might be fixed” in anticipation is an understatement. What Janeite in their right mind is not salivating at the thought of an Austen sequel written by such an acclaimed and exalted author? Just the thought of Austen and mystery in one sentence pushes me into the giddy zone. James has taken up her pen inspired by my, and her, favorite author and whipped up a murder mystery for me to devour is delightful. Okay, I got that off my chest, so now on to more pleasant topics – the fact that the venerable mystery writer P. It really puts me off my reading game from the get go. If you are going to write a sequel to a classic of world literature, it is, what it is. Since Death Comes to Pemberley is a sequel to Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, it is like apologizing for snow being cold. In this case, it is to author Jane Austen for using her characters. I consider it more than a bit perplexing when an author begins their book with an apology.
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