Pride, Predjudice, and Poison is a great murder mystery that I was hooked from the first chapter on. Great characters and we'll written.

Can a murder story be delicious? If so then this is one. Set in Yorkshire, the local Jane Austen Society comprise a disparate group of JA lovers. During a largely contentious monthly meeting the president is poisoned. Our heroine, Erin, runs the local secondhand bookshop with teas and coffee and acts as a bit of a, young, Miss Marple. She knows everyone and there are certainly plenty of slightly, or more than, eccentric characters - the perfect married couple, a wife with a secret, the cat lady, the dashing "Mr Bingley", the academic husband, the dead woman's lover and her husband and so on. The two York detectives, DI Hadley and DS Jarral, are rounded characters too - serious but fun. The plot is gentle, the conversation sparkling with plenty of quotes and improvisations from, mainly, Pride and Pred. A coupe of hours of very enjoyable reading with a satisfactory end. What more can one ask in these days of gruesome, raw murders and abuse? Respite. Lovely. Thanks to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.