By: Stephanie Barron
Genre: Mystery Woman Sleuth
Bantam
December 1, 1997
On Sale: December 1, 1997
Featuring:
368 pages
ISBN: 0553574892
EAN: 9780553574890
Paperback (reprint)
Book Summary
For everyone who loves Jane Austen...the second
tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the
beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!
Jane and her
family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the
seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of
town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to
take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that
Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive
Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth. What murky secrets does the
brooding Mr. Sidmouth seek to hide? Jane suspects the
worst—but her attention is swiftly diverted when a man is
discovered hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea. The
worthies of Lyme are certain his death is the work of "the
Reverend," the ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade
whose identity is the town's paramount mystery. Now, it
falls to Jane to entrap and expose the notorious
Reverend...even if the evidence points to the last person
on earth she wants to suspect...a man who already may have
won her heart.