Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

hot take one of the better entries in this series but Dear Lord, The Path To Love Does Not Run Smooth does it??

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

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BINGO: Family, right? Has to be. I fear my patience for the obstacles that are constantly strewn in Miss Tilney and Mr. Darcy Jr’s way is starting to smart a bit. I’ll admit that this one was rather clever, and even though it took a while for the penny to drop when it did I genuinely felt the tension (and could hear the soundtrack to the movie — Scene: our ladies of leisure browse the art exhibition…people are whispering…the music crescendos… suddenly the whispers get […]

Despite her past experiences with murders, she had not yet learned that the most inescapable force in the world is irony.

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

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I really enjoyed this installment of the A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney Mystery series, The Rushworth Family Plot. The elder Darcys have decided young Mr. Darcy mush go to London with them, and when their visit is cut short, that he must stay as continue to socialize (reminder, the elder Mr. Darcy was not in favor of his son’s attachment to Miss Tilney). Miss Tilney’s grandfather, having hear that Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy has turned up his nose at his granddaughter, has decided that Juliet, […]

Or You Could Try Talking Sometime?

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray has written a series of murder mysteries set in Jane Austen’s Regency England, populated with characters from her most well-known books. The two main characters, however are OCs; Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett (of Pride and Prejudice fame) and Juliet Tilney, daughter of Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney (of Northanger Abbey). Jonathan and Juliet keep stumbling into situations involving murders, and they are the only two truly capable of solving them. In this, the third book of the […]

She had even vaguely felt that it reflected ill upon her to have attracted an assassin of such incompetence, however grateful for that lack of skill she might be.

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray

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Having been thrown together by happenstance to investigate murder in the first two books, Mr. Jonathan Darcy and Miss Juliet Tilney are instead commanded to attend to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and stop the murder attempts being made upon her life. Young Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney are pleased to be able to see each other again and determined to catch the culprit before they are successful in their attempts. Their fathers are far less enthusiastic, though the do agree to travel to Rosings Park […]

Just kiss already!

The Late Mrs. Willougby by Claudia Gray

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Miss Juliet Tilney goes to visit her friend Marianne Brandon in her charming home in Devonshire. They haven’t seen one another since the rather unfortunate house party where Mr Wickham was murdered, and Miss Tilney and young Jonathan Darcy managed to discover who killed him. Jonathan Darcy finds himself the rather reluctant houseguest of a former school bully, Mr. Willoughby. He goes to see him so as to not make his parents constantly worry about his lack of friends, but is rather miserable until he […]

Jane Austen fan fiction with murder!

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

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Mr. Knightley and his wife, Emma (formerly Miss Woodhouse), have been happily married for several years. They are inviting a number of friends to a houseparty; Mr. and Mrs Darcy of Pemberley with their son Jonathan, Colonel and Mrs. Brandon (no children yet, as they are very newly married), Captain and Mrs. Wentworth,  Edmund and Fanny Bertram and Miss Juliet Tilney, daughter of  Henry and Catherine Tilney. Unfortunately, they also receive an unexpected and unwanted addition to the party, Mr Wickham, who has unfinished business with several of the members there. The Knightleys would […]



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