jane austen à scargrave manor stephanie barron

The series began in And Only to Deceive with Lady Emily embracing the freedoms afforded by widowhood after the husband she’d wed only to escape her overbearing mother is killed while on safari in Africa. Secrets of the Nile, which releases on October 4th, will be the sixteenth entry in Alexander’s bestselling Lady Emily Mystery series set in the Victorian era.

So to celebrate, I’m sharing some of my favorite dames who always get their man. I’m absolutely thrilled that with the release of A Perilous Perspective, my heroine, Lady Darby, will now be added to that long-running series list. The quantity of these long-running historical mystery series that feature female sleuths is particularly striking, for these heroines each exhibit their own captivating blend of moxie, panache, and ingenuity. But a glimpse of those series that do hit that mark offers up a stellar list of titles which combine endearing characters, clever plots, and fascinating history. And narrowing the field further to examine only my subgenre of historical mysteries-those set in the past when they were written, not penned contemporaneously in a time that happens to now be historical, à la Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot-the number of entries shrank even more. However, once I began doing research for this article, I discovered that truly long-running series-those that last for a minimum of ten books-are far fewer than I’d anticipated.

Jane austen à scargrave manor stephanie barron