The Mansfield Park Murder: A gripping historical detective novel Lynn Shepherd 9781804360279

A Jane Austen heroine murdered. A literary villain turned hero. And an investigator between it all.

The year is 1814 when Fanny Price is found murdered in Mansfield Park. Once a rich heiress who was spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. But her death is none-the-less haunting.

It then takes Mary Crawford, who is now as good as Fanny was bad, to team up with a thief-taker, Charles Maddox, from London to solve the brutal crime. But with dramatic confrontations comes consequences... some even deadly.

A twisted take on Mansfield Park, Shepherd brings a brilliantly entertaining novel that offers Jane Austen fans an engaging new heroine - and mystery laced in every chapter.

Previously published as Murder at Mansfield Park.

Lynn Shepherd writes 'literary mysteries' - in other words, one part literary fiction to one part mystery, each time inspired either by a classic book or classic literary figures. The Mansfield Park Murder and The Man in Black, based on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charles Dickens' Bleak House are publishing June 2022, with two more titles inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula coming in September 2022. After studying English at university she decided to combine her two greatest literary loves: classic English novels and a good detective fiction, and hasn't put down her pen since.