Jane Austen Investigates

A young Jane Austen jumps at the chance to get out of the dreary countryside for a while and accompanies her older sister Cassandra to a ball the headmistress of their former school is throwing. Not only is this a chance to see her friends Arjun and Deepti again (which she met in the first book of this series) and meet some new people, it also presents her with a wealth of ideas for the little stories she likes to write to entertain her family. What she didn't know beforehand: again there is a mystery to solve and a thief to catch. It was very delightful to read about Jane and her friends, to learn a bit about life & society more than 200 years ago and also to make my own assumptions on who is the culprit in this case. And to detect the little nods to Austen's work, be it names or certain character traits that the older Jane used in her novels. She must have gotten her ideas from somewhere, so why not imagine it happened just like Julia Golding wants us to believe it did. I really hope there will be more books in this series coming out eventually.