Gold and Good Sense: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Elaine Burkett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Pride and Prejudice variation where Bennet's younger brother has left his vast wealth to his nieces. How does this affect their futures
An enjoyable story

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Gold and Good Sense: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Elaine Burkett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Pride and Prejudice variation where Bennet's younger brother has left his vast wealth to his nieces. How does this affect their futures
An enjoyable story

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One Last Chance: to begin again by A.L. Ward
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A Pride and Prejudice variation where on the way back from Hunsford to London, Darcy arrives in Meryton months earlier. He is back at his arrival at Netherfield. How will the past events impact on his behaviour and the Bennet family especially.
An entertaining and well-written variation

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The Heir of Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Beatrice Langford
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A Pride and Prejudice variation where Mr Bennet without an explanation leaves Longbourn. But what happens when this absence last for many months.
An enjoyable story

(The first part of their journey........ - no Meryton is north of London and so is Pemberley, there is no need to go through London. So fed up reading stories that state that Mary reads Fordyce's sermons.)

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In the Eyes of Lord Lingley: a Pride and Prejudice Continuation by A.L. Ward
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Pride and Prejudice variation where at the Darcy and Bingley wedding Lord Lingley becomes aware of a very very much maligned Mary Bennet. Not just by all her family but the neighbourhood as well. So what will he do.
An enjoyable story with very awful Bennet parents.

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The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Holmes story is to be made into a film which results in five experts in the Holmes story to be hired as consultants. With strange happenings and a death Inspectors Finch and Jackson investigate.
An entertaining historical mystery

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The Folly: A Murder Mystery by AG Barnett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1926. Fane is invited to a garden party to reveal a hermitage, of a family he does not know. In the afternoon the hermit is shot dead. With the Sergeant and Nell, Blackwood investigates.
An entertaining historical mystery

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Fortuna's Deadly Shadow by Leslie Scase
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1895 Two years after a fatal train crash Inspector Thomas Chard arrives in Pontypridd, only for his first case to be of murder. That of one of the fatalities who has already been buried. So what is the identity of the buried male.
An enjoyable historical mystery
(May Roper is just an annoying character)

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The Case of the Peculiar Pantomime by Paula Harmon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Fleet and Castor are asked by friend Selena to investigate the strange going-ons at the Christmas pantomime.
An enjoyable story

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The Puzzle of the Red Stallion by Stuart Palmer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Model Violet Feverer is riding her horse in Central Park when she dies, Miss Withers who is walking her dog in the area insists she was killed and decides to investigate.

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The Laughter of Love: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Linda Thompson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This Pride and Prejudice trilogy concludes. How will Mrs Bennet cope with the weddings. Will there be happy endings for everyone or are some destined for unhappines.
Enjoyed because my favourite pairing happened, just a pity there was not more of this interesting pairing. A re-read.

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The Mystery of the Christmas Bauble by Carmen Radtke
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A Christmas bauble given as a reward in 1931 is discovered in the present day and contain a message. An enjoyable short story

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Peril at Cranbury Hall by John Rhode
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Oliver Gilroy has been released from prison after servi g a sentence for his financial scam. But he is on the receiving end of several 'incidents'. Why is someone trying to kill him.
An entertaining historical mystery

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Requiem in Vienna by J. Sydney Jones
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1899. A series of incidents surround opera director Gustav Mahler. Is someone attempting to kill him? Lawyer Karl Werthen investigates. An enjoyable historical mystery

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By Trade and by Trust: A pride and prejudice variation by Jayanth Subramanyan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This Pride and Prejudice continues as Darcy and Elizabeth have married, and Jane has a son with Weston. The remaining Bennets finally arrive at Pemberley but what of the Bingleys.
An entertaining and well-written story

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The Body In The Trees: A Bowman Of The Yard Investigation by Richard James
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

1892. Detectives Bowman and Graves are sent to the village of Larton to investigate 3 deaths, all deemed suicides. Overall an enjoyable enough mystery

(Time that Bowman's problems and his alcoholism became secondary to the mystery, it has become annoying as if he was the only one to suffer the lose of a partner.)

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Death by Sports Car by P.F. Ford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lizzie Becker has just received a text message from her daughter Lilly's phone. But Lilly died in a car accident severl years ago, driven by her, according to the police. Finally a case for the duo, then they are employed to find a friend of Lilly's, Mickey. Who is supposes to be staying with his father.
An entertaining modern mystery

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The Apothecary’s Poison by Lana Williams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1884. Accounts clerk Theodore Crumpe dies after taking apothecary Tooley's nerve tonic. Inspector Field investigates. An enjoyable historical mystery

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The Devil In The Dock: A Bowman Of The Yard Investigation by Richard James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

1892 D.I. Bowman is sent as security detail to the london docks, meanwhile a murdered man is found in Drury Lane. Is there a connection between the two.
An enjoyable historical mystery apart from details of his mental health


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Laughter Through Trials: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Linda Thompson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This Pride and Prejudice trilogy continues as Elizabeth Bennet is now in town to face the ton. Soon she is joined by Jane and Mary. Elizabeth continues to be irritatingly perfect which distracts from the story and does become boring. A bit of a sweet story though there is Lady Marjorie and Caroline Bingley with of course George Wickham to add some needed sourness. Liked the start of a possible romance for Mary, but not enough to buy the paperback of the first two volumes
An entertaining story, a re-read.

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