Jane and the Waterloo Map, Stephanie Barron
Jane and the Waterloo Map, Stephanie Barron
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Jane and the Waterloo Map

Author: Stephanie Barron

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/02/2016


Synopsis

The thirteenth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Between novels, Victorian England's most beloved author doubles as a sleuth in often idyllic locales. November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has left the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, is about to declare bankruptcy. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside. While she is there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to Carlton House, the Prince's fabulous London home. Jane only accepts because many of Henry's bad loans were given by the Prince Regent's cronies. She hopes to intercede with the Regent on Henry's behalf, but before she can speak to him, she stumbles upon a dying man in the library--Colonel Ivor MacFarland, who with a knife in his entrails utters a single failing phrase: the Waterloo map . . . and Jane is on the hunt for a treasure of incalculable value, and a killer of considerable cunning. Praise for Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas "[A]n excellent period mystery for all historical fiction fans...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 "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 has clearly done her homework in the language and manners of Austen's time . . . [H]er latest venture edges out competing authors of Regency whodunits."--Kirkus Reviews "[A] good double closed house mystery and an engaging historical novel, with careful descriptions of Georgian Christmas customs." --Booklist Stephanie Barron was born in Binghamton, New York, the last of six girls. She attended Princeton and Stanford Universities, where she studied history, before going on to work as an intelligence analyst at the CIA. She wrote her first book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Since then, she has written sixteen books. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado.

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.


Reviews

"He shut the hackney door, and I bowled away down the sweep" Barron has mastered the style of speech of the period: “You are very good, sir,” I said, rising with an air that must be read as dismissal—“and the Regent’s generosity is nothing short of remarkable. Please say everything proper to His Roya......more

Goodreads review by Abigail

Jane and the Waterloo Map is the thirteenth entry in this wonderful series, and I would have to contradict Mr. Bennet most firmly if he told me that it had “delighted me long enough.” To the contrary—I’m only sad that we are drawing so close to the time of Jane Austen’s illness and death, as it will......more

Goodreads review by Ceri

This review was first published on Babblings of a Bookworm: [URL not allowed] This is number 13 in the ‘Being a Jane Austen Mystery’ series, following on from ‘Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas’ which I reviewed last year. It is November 1815 and Jane Austen is staying with......more