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The Hapless Milliner

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A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first book in a series

Jane Austen—sparkling, spirited and incredibly clever—is suddenly thrust into a mystery when a milliner's dead body is found locked inside a cupboard during the middle of a ball. When Jane's brother Georgie is found with some jewellery that belonged to the deceased, the local officials see it as an open-and-shut case, one which is likely to end with Georgie's death. Jane is certain that her brother is innocent, and that there is much more to the murder than meets the eye.

Jane's investigations take her on a lively journey through local society as her suspect list keeps growing—and her keen skill for observation will be put to the test in solving this crime and saving her brother.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 20, 2023
      A 20-year-old Jane Austen unexpectedly becomes an amateur sleuth to clear her brother’s name in Bull’s imaginative debut and series launch. Budding novelist Jane attends a ball at the opulent home of Lord John Harcourt, where she expects dashing Irishman Tom Lefroy to offer her his hand in marriage. Before Lefroy can bend a knee, however, one of Harcourt’s housemaids finds the body of a young woman in the laundry closet, and the festivities come to a halt. Jane recognizes the victim as Madame Renault, a milliner who’d sold her a hat a few days earlier. The expensive necklace Renault was wearing before her death is missing from her corpse, so the local magistrate surmises that vagabonds used the ball as cover to steal Madame Renault’s necklace and leave her for dead. When the jewelry turns up in the pocket of Jane’s nonverbal older brother Georgie, he’s swiftly arrested and charged with theft and murder. With Georgie unable to defend himself and Jane convinced of his innocence, she enlists the help of her close-knit family to find the killer before her brother is hanged. Bull’s Jane is an endearingly clumsy detective, equal parts clever and impulsive, and the investigation contains the kind of high stakes that similar breezy historicals often lack. This series seems destined for a long run.

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