Rezension: P. D. James: »Death Comes to Pemberley«

This »dream team« of crime fiction, Jane Austen and PD James, combines James’s meticulous plotting with Austen’s sharp-eyed characterisation. The novel begins some years after the ending of »Pride and Prejudice«.

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