Sense and Second-Degree Murder | Bookzio

In this second guide of the Jane Austen Murder Mystery sequence, Tirzah Price takes readers for one more enjoyable, murderous romp by way of one in every of Austen’s beloved novels. Perfect for followers of The Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper. A Junior Library Guild choose!
When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his workplace research, she is aware of his demise means dire straits for the Dashwood ladies. To make issues worse, an outdated will entails his property—together with Norland & Company, the personal investigation agency the place her youthful sister Marianne labored as her father’s accomplice and protégé—to their half-brother and his haughty spouse, who waste no time in forcing the Dashwoods out of their house and right into a cramped condominium on London’s Barton Street.
But earlier than they go, the Dashwood sisters make a startling discovery: a suspicious substance of their father’s teacup—one that may solely be described as poison. And poison, as Marianne’s father taught her, all the time factors to homicide.
It might be harmful; it may destroy their reputations; and most significantly, it received’t deliver again their father. But if the Dashwood sisters can mix their skills and deliver their father’s assassin to justice, it might deliver all of them some consolation—and it’d even result in love.
“Pride and Premeditation is a romantic and entertaining page-turner, sure to delight readers of any genre.” —Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of the Stalking Jack the Ripper sequence