Off the Shelf: Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull

Jane LIVES and I want to hang out with her and solve crime, tbh

Jane Austen, brilliant, talented and beloved, with a revered canon of of literature and impeccable turn of wit, seems to incite others to imitation, even 200 odd years after death. Whether or not this distresses or vexes her ghost is not for me to say.

There are so many iterations of Austen. Some are great - Clueless, Longbourn by Jo Baker, Gill Hornby’s