Jane and the Final Mystery (Being a Jane Austen Mystery)

The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austens health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgroundsand in the pocket of his drenched waistcoat is an incriminating note penned by the young William Heathcote, the son of Janes dear friend Elizabeth. Winchester College is a world unto itself, with its own language and rites of passage, cruel hazing and dangerous pranks. Can Jane clear Williams name before her illness gets the better of her? Over the course of fourteen previous novels in the critically acclaimed Being a Jane Austen Mystery series, Stephanie Barron has won the hearts of thousands of fanscrime fiction aficionados and Janeites alikewith her tricky plotting and breathtaking evocation of Austens voice. Now, she brings Janes final seasonand final murder investigationto brilliant, poignant life in this unforgettable conclusion.