lotusjoybrown 's review for:

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
3.0

This book was a bit slow in plot development (natural, I suppose, of murder trials at the time). Personally I felt it was immediately transparent who the murderer was, and I didn't agree with all the character changes the author decided to make. However, I do feel it successfully immersed me in the world of Jane Austen and I chuckled at the sly references to non P&P Austen characters such as Mrs. Knightly and Lord Elliot. Overall, if you like the macabre feeling of a murder mystery, this isn't a bad Austen fanfic, but be prepared for the characters to be a bit changed, and for the explanations at the end to be rather abrupt (as is common in the muster genre).