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  • Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery

  • The Crime with the Classics, Book 1
  • By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
  • Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
  • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (125 ratings)

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Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery

By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
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Publisher's summary

Arsenic with Austen is the first book in a delightful new cozy mystery series in which an English teacher becomes involved in murder cases that reflect elements of her favorite books.

When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great-aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life.

Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered on a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of the whole town. As she gets to know the town's eccentric inhabitants - including her own once-and-possibly-future love, Sheriff Luke Richards - she learns of a covert plan to develop Stony Beach into a major resort. She also hears hints that her aunt may have been murdered. Soon another suspicious death confirms this, and before long Emily herself experiences a near-fatal accident.

Meanwhile Emily reads Persuasion, hoping to find belated happiness with her first love, as Anne Elliot did with Captain Wentworth. She notices a similarity between her not-quite-cousin, Brock Runcible, heir to a smaller portion of her aunt's property, and Mr. Elliot in Persuasion, and her suspicions of Brock crystallize. But as she and Luke continue to investigate and events speed toward a climax, Emily realizes that underneath the innocent-looking rocks of Stony Beach lurk festering jealousies that would have shocked even the worst of Jane Austen's charming reprobates.

©2016 Katherine Bolger Hyde (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Love and mystery …what could be better?

I love this story so much I just listened for the second time! I feel at home with Emily and Luke and the other positive characters The attention to faith is also very pleasing because I am also a Believer.