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 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the Cobb—Lyme’s famous
seawall—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
child—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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