Launch Week for Muslin & Mystery!

This voyage began with a question: what if some of Jane Austen’s most composed and self-assured characters found themselves crammed together on a small ship, far from home, with nothing to do but solve a crime?

Jane Austen never wrote a murder, but she certainly understood suspense. We laugh, but also go along for the ride with Catherine Moreland and her gothic fears. We wait with Elizabeth to find out whether Lydia will be found. We pine for Eleanor Dashwood as Lucy Steele forces unwelcome intrigue on her, waiting to see how it will play out for Edward.

In other Regency stories, I love Georgette Heyer for her mysteries! The Reluctant Widow (always a favorite), The Talisman Ring, and The Quiet Gentleman are some of my favorites. I tried to channel a mix of Heyer and Austen for Muslin and Mystery, I wanted to let that kind of small-scale tension unfold at sea.

So what happens? When someone breaks into the Royal Mail aboard the Lady Mary Pelham, the captain is furious, the Fitzwilliams and Wentworths are alarmed, and almost everyone else has something to hide. Is it espionage? Greed? Romance? (I will say, since some of my Street Team said this was a selling point: there isn’t a murder in this story. It is definitely a cozy, feel-good mystery.)

Another early reader happened to be from the Falmouth area that I reference in the story, and it was so awesome to get her feedback.

Now that Muslin and Mystery is out in the world, I’m so excited for y’all to meet my traveling party. So, come aboard and see who you trust by the time we reach our first stop at Lisbon. Muslin and Mystery is available now.

Thanks,

Corrie

P.S. Has anyone actually been to Lisbon? I really want to go now that I’ve written about it.