Jane and the Barque of Frailty, Stephanie Barron
Jane and the Barque of Frailty, Stephanie Barron
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Jane and the Barque of Frailty

Author: Stephanie Barron

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

In her latest spellbinding escapade, Jane Austen arrives in London to watch over the printing of her first novel, and finds herself embroiled in a crime that could end more than her career. For it is up to Jane to tease a murderer out of the ton, lest she—and her country—suffer a dastardly demise.…

On the heels of completing Sense and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the Fashionable Great at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the intimate correspondence between a Russian princess and a prominent Tory minister is published in the papers for all to see. More shocking, the disgraced beauty is soon found with her throat slit on Lord Castlereagh’s very doorstep.

Everyone who’s anyone in high society is certain the spurned princess committed the violence upon herself. But Jane is unconvinced. Nor does she believe the minister guilty of so grisly and public a crime. Jane, however, is willing to let someone else investigate—until a quirk of fate thrusts her and Eliza into the heart of the case…as prime suspects!

Striking a bargain with the authorities, Jane secures seven days to save herself and Eliza from hanging. But as her quest to unmask a killer takes her from the halls of government to the drawing rooms of London’s most celebrated courtesan, only one thing is sure: her failure will not only cut short her life. It could lead to England’s downfall. A compulsively readable, uncommonly elegant novel of historical suspense, Jane and the Barque of Frailty once again proves Jane Austen a sleuth to be reckoned with.

About The Author

Stephanie Barron is the author of the standalone historical suspense novels A Flaw in the Blood and The White Garden, as well as the Jane Austen mystery series. As Francine Mathews, she is the author of several novels of espionage, including The Alibi Club. She lives in Denver, Colorado.Kate Reading is the recipient of three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot. Her favorite BOT recordings include Like Water for Chocolate, Middlemarch, and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kailey (Luminous Libro) on December 28, 2023

Jane Austen is visiting her brother and sister-in-law in London, when a foreign princess is murdered. Jane is accused of being involved, and she starts her own investigation to find the real killer. A "barque of frailty" is a polite society term for a prostitute, and Jane discovers that one such wom......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on January 01, 2013

This book is a real treat for fans of Jane Austen and mystery books alike. The Barque of Frailty is book nine in Barron’s Being A Jane Austen Mystery series. I wish I had started at the beginning, but I will certainly enjoy going back to the start. Barron does a brilliant job of weaving together the......more

Goodreads review by Georgiana on August 17, 2020

Interessantissimo giallo storico in cui Stephanie Barron - ex agente della CIA - finge di essere la curatrice di alcuni diari segreti di Jane Austen ritrovati in una soffitta di una pro-pro-pronipite americana della scrittrice dello Hampshire. Siamo nell’aprile 1811, e Jane si trova a a Londra, ospi......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on September 04, 2017

Jane Austen has a rare stroke of luck when her visit to her publisher and her banker brother Henry coincide with the 1811 London season. During her stay with Henry and his fun, if impractical, wife Eliza, a Russian princess ends up dead, her throat slit, on the doorstep of a former Tory Cabinet mini......more

Goodreads review by Anne (Booklady) on June 15, 2011

A unique idea using a much beloved Jane Austen as a sleuth! Ms. Barron successfully imitates the vernacular of 19th century England as Jane narrates the story of the suspicious death of Russian Princess Evgenia Tshoikova. However, this historical tale has some incredulous moments, but overall is a......more


Quotes

“Satisfying right to the last revelation…. The author excels at both period detail and modern verve…. Sparkling.”—Publishers Weekly

“Barron's research is impeccable, bringing the sights and sounds of Austen's era to the page with detail and sparkle.... This is great fun for Austen fans who like a little mystery with their manners.”—Rocky Mountain News