A review by blancwene
The Suspicion at Sanditon by Carrie Bebris

3.0

The last (for now) of the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries. This one felt like a riff on [b:And Then There Were None|16299|And Then There Were None|Agatha Christie|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1391120695l/16299._SY75_.jpg|3038872], in that characters kept disappearing one by one from Lady Denham's dinner party until very few of the original 14 were left. Fortunately, though, they don't end up murdered like in Christie's novel! I thought the first explanation of the disappearances was hysterical and very in keeping with the character in question; the second explanation was a little more complex, and beyond the confines of Austen's [b:Sanditon|5509247|Sanditon|Jane Austen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328729014l/5509247._SY75_.jpg|62966324] fragment. I enjoyed this one, although the Darcys did feel a little shoehorned in--but since that's been my consistent complaint about this series, I think I've come to accept the fact that Darcy and Elizabeth just keep stumbling into the aftermath of other Austen stories.