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Jennifer Petkus divides her time creating websites for the dead, writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a police reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She lives in fear of getting a phone call from her dead Japanese mother. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live.

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Another preview of “Jane, Actually or Jane Austen’s Book Tour”

This preview needs a little setup—actually it needs a lot of setup. Jane Austen is that famous disembodied Regency author we all know and love and almost two hundred years after her death, has landed a contract with Random House to publish her completed Sanditon. Of course the publisher wants a likeness of Jane to [...] read more »

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Average rating: 4.38 · 16 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Good Cop, Dead Cop 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Particular Friend (A Charlotte House Affair Book 1) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Jennifer Petkus gave to: Niedermayer & Hart by M.J. Johnson (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
You could be smart and just read Martin Johnson’s “Niedermayer & Hart” on my say so, no questions asked. If you enjoy horror stories with a nice historical background, you will enjoy this book. If you liked “Quatermass and the Pit” (or the later...more
May 31, 2012 09:53am · see review
Jennifer Petkus gave to: City of Thieves by David Benioff	My rating:
I admit I only read David Benioff’s City of Thieves because it was a present from my friend Mike. After all, the siege of Leningrad is not what I would normally turn to for my usual escapist fiction, but the story of Lev Beniov, a young boy who staye...more
May 24, 2012 12:20pm · see review
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Jennifer Petkus liked Jeffrey's review of My Particular Friend: " In her fledgling foray into the growing field of Austenesque fan fiction, author Jennifer Petkus takes an entirely new direction from her first novel, Good Cop, Dead Cop, with My Particular Friend, mixing up Regency match making and mystery, which... " Read more of this review »
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Jennifer Petkus liked Cyrano's review of My Particular Friend: " When Sherlock Holmes meets Jeeves ! If you like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and P.G. Wodehouse, you will love My Particular friend. It is inspired by those two writers but also by Jane Austen for the setting, Bath, and the succession of balls during the... " Read more of this review »
May 13, 2012 04:07pm · see review
Jennifer Petkus gave to: Charlotte ~ Pride & Prejudice Continues by Karen Aminadra (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
It shows a great deal of charity to think kindly on the odious Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice. Sure, we all feel for Charlotte Collins née Lucas, who, knowing that her marital prospects are not good, accepts his offer of marriage. As Charlotte con...more
May 13, 2012 08:18am · see review
Jennifer Petkus marked as to-read: Pulse and Prejudice by Colette L. Saucier (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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