Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas..., Stephanie Barron
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas..., Stephanie Barron
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Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Being a Jane Austen Mystery

Author: Stephanie Barron

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/28/2014

Synopsis

Christmas Eve, 1814. Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at the Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide gathering dies in a tragic accident whose circumstances Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snowbound guests. With clues scattered amid cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?

About Stephanie Barron

Stephanie Barron is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford, where she studied history. A former intelligence analyst for the CIA, Stephanie—who also writes under the name Francine Mathews—drew on her experience in the field of espionage for such novels as The Alibi Club, which Publishers Weekly named as one of the fifteen best novels of 2006, and for her critically acclaimed Jane Austen Mystery series, in which the intrepid and witty author of Pride and Prejudice details her secret detective career in Regency England. Barron lives and works in Denver.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tiziana on January 07, 2025

A delightful immersion in the world of Jane Austen and an engaging historical mystery from start to finish. I enjoyed so much reading this mystery set in Jane Austen's world!! I had it on my shelf for a few years and I always put off reading it, perhaps for fear of disappointment, after all, as we k......more

Goodreads review by Lady Wesley on March 30, 2022

Review of audiobook narrated by Kate Reading Oh, dear, I'm in trouble. I love Jane Austen. I love mysteries. I love everything that Kate Reading narrates. This book is my catnip. It was free from the Audible Plus catalog, but there are twelve others that are not free, and I want to hear them all. Step......more

Goodreads review by Ceri on November 17, 2014

This review was first posted on Babblings of a Bookworm This is the latest in the series by Stephanie Barron featuring our beloved authoress, Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, stumbling across and solving murders. I am a little late to the party on this series, considering this is the first one I’ve......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on December 30, 2022

It's been ten years since I read any of the Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron. And I have only read the first four, which means there are seven books between where I stopped and this one. But none of that mattered at ALL because I dove merrily and seamlessly into this book and enjoyed it tho......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on December 28, 2015

Stephanie Barron remains for me the reigning queen of Austenesque fiction. Not only does she have a deep knowledge of Regency manners and history and a true ear for Austen’s dialect as expressed in her letters, but she also has great plotting skills! All her talents were on display here: I enjoyed J......more

Quotes

“A genteelly jolly series.” New York Times Book Review

“Vivid characters propel the subtle plot to its surprising conclusion. The first-person narration captures Austen’s tone as revealed in her letters: candid, loving, and occasionally acerbic.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Barron fittingly sets her wonderfully wry and witty twelfth Jane Austen mystery during the twelve days of Christmas…An excellent period mystery for all historical fiction fans, but Jane Austen devotees will especially appreciate immersing themselves in the many biographical details about Austen that accompany the fictional murder mystery.” Library Journal (starred review)

“Twelfth in the series, this is both a good double closed-house mystery and an engaging historical novel, with careful descriptions of Georgian Christmas customs, which involve celebrations beginning on Christmas and running through Epiphany.” Booklist

“Barron has clearly done her homework in the language and manners of Austen’s time…Her latest venture edges out competing authors of Regency whodunits.” Kirkus Reviews

“Some of the most enjoyable, well-written fanfic ever created.” O, The Oprah Magazine, praise for the series

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