Introducing…A MATTER OF MURDER!

I’m really excited to be sharing the cover and title of my next book, the second in the Lizzie and Darcy Murder Mysteries. It’s also the finale of Lizzie and Darcy’s story…so I’ve been having a lot of feelings about it! It’s so wild to think that I’ll soon be saying farewell to characters that popped into my head in 2018 (which feels like a lifetime ago!) and I really, really hope you’ll love this book. I’m so honored that so many of you have discovered these books.

In this next book you can expect to find new and old characters, plenty of romantic tension, a cold case, a house full of secrets, threatening messages, near-misses, multiple murder attempts, a BALL, and one very long con! So without further ado…

Cover art by Emma Congdon, cover design by Corinna Lupp

The thrilling conclusion to the Lizzie & Darcy Mysteries duology, following Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy from the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series! 

A Bingley family curse looms over Lizzie’s sister and Darcy’s best friend—but are the dark forces at work supernatural or human?

Lizzie Bennet’s beloved sister Jane has just married Darcy’s best friend, Bingley, and the Bennet family and Darcy are paying the newlyweds a visit at Bingley’s family home, Netherfield Park. It doesn’t take long for their country retreat to turn into an investigation, though, when a long-dead body is discovered stuffed up the parlor chimney.

The locals are convinced that Netherfield is cursed, but Lizzie and Darcy know better than to believe in such nonsense and are determined to uncover the truth about what happened to the mysterious man in the chimney. But as they dig deeper into the history of Netherfield Park, they find that danger is waiting for them around every corner. Soon enough, they’re forced to consider if the curse might have some merit to it, or if there’s something—or someone—far more sinister behind their near brushes with death. . . .

This duology closer is a daring and delightful conclusion to the chronicles of supersleuths Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy!

I love this cover so much! One of the best parts about these detailed, cross-stitch covers is that my editor always asks me what should go on the cover and I have a blast brainstorming all of the various objects that are significant to the plot and give her a big list and then cover artist Emma Congdon (who is a fantastic cross stitch pattern deisgner!) picks and chooses and comes up with the most brilliantly fun covers. This one also will look splendid next to In Want of a Suspect because the colors are inverse—I can’t wait to see them side by side on the shelf! November 11th can’t come soon enough—but if you want to preorder now, you can!