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Arsenic with Austen is the first publication in a wonderful new cozy puzzle series where an English instructor becomes involved in murder cases that reflect components of her favorite catalogs. When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great-aunt, she expects her life to improve. She doesn't be prepared to embark on a murder analysis, confront the man who broke her heart and soul 35 years before, and almost lose her own life. Emily journeys to the sleepy seaside community of Stony Beach, Oregon, to assert her inheritance, devoted to a beautiful Victorian house called Windy Place but also including a considerable portion of the real estate of the whole town. As she gets to know the town's eccentric inhabitants - including her own once-and-possibly-future love, Sheriff Luke Richards - she learns of an covert plan to develop Stony Beach into a major hotel. She also hears tips that her aunt might have been murdered. Soon another suspicious loss of life confirms this, and in a short time Emily herself experiences a near-fatal crash. Meanwhile Emily reads Persuasion, hoping to find belated delight with her first love, as Anne Elliot does with Captain Wentworth. She notices a similarity between her not-quite-cousin, Brock Runcible, heir to an inferior part of her aunt's property, and Mr. Elliot in Persuasion, and her suspicions of Brock crystallize. But as she and Luke continue steadily to investigate and situations rate toward a climax, Emily realizes that underneath the innocent-looking stones of Stony Beach lurk festering jealousies that could have stunned even the most severe of Jane Austen's wonderful reprobates.
