This article comes from the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

By Katherine F. Greenwood on August 12, 2011

New book: Jane and the Canterbury Tale, by Stephanie Barron

The author: Fifteen years ago, Barron published Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, which introduced Jane Austen, detective. Since then Barron has continued to capture Austen’s voice and era in her Jane Austen Mystery series. Barron also is the author of the stand-alone historical suspense novels A Flaw in the Blood and The White Garden. As Francine Mathews, she is the author of the Nantucket mystery series and other novels.

The book: In the eleventh installment of the Jane Austen mystery series, the famous sleuth attends the wedding of Adelaide Fiske and Andrew MacAllister. Trouble starts when a mysterious man arrives at the party and leaves a bag of tamarind seeds, rendering the bride ghostly white. The next day, the stranger is found dead, and soon he is identified as Fiske’s first husband, Curzon Fiske, long believed to have been dead. Austen’s brother is the magistrate investigating the murder, but it’s up to Austen to figure out why Fiske returned in the first place and who was responsible for the murder.

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