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The Deception At Lyme by Carrie Bebris

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Also by Carrie Bebris:

The Suspicion at Sanditon, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Deception At Lyme, October 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Intrigue At Highbury, August 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
The Intrigue at Highbury: Or, Emma's Match, March 2010
Hardcover / e-Book
The Matters At Mansfield: Or, The Crawford Affair, September 2008
Hardcover
North By Northanger, or The Shades of Pemberley, March 2006
Hardcover
Pride and Prescience, February 2005
Paperback
Suspense and Sensibility or, First Impressions Revisited, February 2005
Hardcover
Pool Of Radiance:, August 2001
Mass Market Paperback

THE DECEPTION AT LYME
By: Carrie Bebris

Or, The Peril of Persuasion

A Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery #6
Tor
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Featuring: Fitzwilliam Darcy; Elizabeth Darcy
320 pages
ISBN: 076532797X
EAN: 9780765327970
Kindle: B004ULPL1S
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Mystery Historical

In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the Cobbβ€”Lyme’s famous seawallβ€”proved dangerous to a careless young woman. Now it proves deadly.

Following their recent intrigue at Highbury, Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy visit the seaside village of Lyme on holiday. Family business also draws them there, to receive the personal effects of Mr. Darcy’s late cousin, a naval lieutenant who died in action.

Their retreat turns tragic when they come upon a body lying at the base of the Cobb. The victim is Mrs. Clay, a woman with a scandalous past that left her with childβ€”a child whose existence threatened the inheritance of one of her paramours and the reputation of another. Did she lose her balance and fall from the slippery breakwater, or was she pushed?

Mrs. Clay’s death is not the only one that commands the Darcys’ attention. When Mr. Darcy discovers, among his cousin’s possessions, evidence that the young lieutenant’s death might have been murder, he allies with Captain Frederick Wentworth (hero of Jane Austen's Persuasion) to probe details of a battle that took place across the sea . . . but was influenced by a conspiracy much closer to home.

The Deception at Lyme (Or, The Peril of Persuasion) is the delightful sixth installment in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery series by Carrie Bebris.

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