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My personal crackpot hypothesis is that the writers are indulging their Colin Firth-as-Darcy wet-shirt fantasies after seeing the BBC miniseries (Bridget Jones' Diary and Lost in Austen did this, I believe), and the publishers have been bandwagon-jumping after the resurgence in Austen-popularity after definitely P&P&Zombies and maybe the Kiera Knightley movie came out.
So that's why we've seen so many newly-published mostly P&P-based Austen-derivatives in recent years, often with a paranormal twist (and few Northanger Abbey ones, which is a shame, because that's the one best suited to paranormal satirization).
Anyway, I think I'll actually read this one because I rather like gimmick sleuth mysteries and this seems a bit different from the usual spate of sparkly vampire Darcy was a really real man that Jane Austen really met and loved so much she had to write about him after he went away leaving her tragically alone!!!!!/Pemberley: The Next Generation And How They Were Begotten In Lavish Erotic Detail sort of fanfic that gets published.
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