Murdered by its own muse
P.D. James opens her sequel to Pride and Prejudice five years into the Darcys’ wedded bliss, and with a firecracker of a suggestion — a death at Pemberley. Murder most foul in one of England’s finest country houses? How will Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy cope with this calamity — and that it should involve Elizabeth’s unfortunate younger sister Lydia and her infamous husband Wickham just adds more powder to the potential pyrotechnics.