Review: Jane Austen and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Title: Jane Austen and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Jane Austen Mysteries #12) Author: Stephanie Barron Publisher: Soho Crime Published: October 28, 2014 Ebook, ARC ISBN13: 9781616954239 Genre: Historical Mystery Source: NetGalley Goodreads Summary: Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood:Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted. Jane, however, disco