Evil lurks even in the genteel world of Jane Austen
English professors Elizabeth and Richard are celebrating twenty years of marriage with their dream vacation in England visiting Jane Austen’s homes. But not even the overpowering personality of their Oxford guide or the careful attentions of their new friends can keep the tour free from lurking alarms. A box of old documents is donated to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath and Richard volunteers to help sort through it. But when he finds the Centre’s director bleeding on her office floor he must ask, will the valuable letter that has gone missing lead them to new revelations about Jane Austen’s unfinished manuscript The Watsons or into deeper danger?
Encounter Jane Austen alongside Elizabeth and Richard on their tour: Visit all the sites so redolent of Austen and her characters in the beautiful city of Bath. Stay in the Chawton House Library and visit the charming Chawton cottage where Jane’s writing flowered, and the nearby Steventon church where her father was rector and her own faith was formed. Stand by her grave in Winchester Cathedral and enjoy your time at the lovely country estate of Godmersham. But don’t let your guard down. Evil lurks even in the genteel world of Jane Austen.
The mystery develops side by side with rather detailed descriptions of the towns, cities, houses, and fields associated with Jane Austen and her family, from Bath to Winchester and Canterbury. And like any academics who know their stuff, Richard and Elizabeth talk extensively about the Austen books and manuscripts, envisioning places where various characters meet and interact. And, somehow, they still find time to solve the mystery. It’s all great fun, and Jane Austen fans should find it to be a treat.
— Amazon reviewer
More fun adventures, mystery and literacy tourism with Elizabeth and Richard are packed within this first-rate suspense.
— Amazon reviewer
If you are a Jane Austin fan, but can’t afford a trip to England to indulge in a visit to all the fabulous locations connected with the original Regency author, then reading A Jane Austin Encounter is the next best thing to being there. Donna Fletcher Crow makes each setting come alive as Richard and Elizabeth indulge their literary fantasies on a long awaited sabbatical tour.
— Amazon reviewer
