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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next, I think I'll read her book of short stories, Wings by Sarah A. Hoyt. |
You may be interested to know that Hoyt has on Smashwords a (currently) free novel set in her Magical British Empire, but more Austen-esque and set during the Regency:
A Touch of Night (also free @
Amazon due to pricematching, though maybe not in the UK). It's apparently a more romantic fantasy, but if it turns out I like the setting, I'll likely end up trying her Shakespearean Elizabethans.
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Originally Posted by phenomshel
This reminded me - have you read the Thoroughly Southern mystery series by Patricia Sprinkle? Add Southern weirdness in there and they pretty closely match your above description...
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I've never heard of them, but they sound like something I'll have to see if the library has.
Bonus points if they demonstrate how blood is thicker than water by doing their "Youdunnit! You hated his guts so much you wanted to use them for garters after strangling him with his own entrails and finally managed to scrape up enough of your own guts to do it after only thirty years of cringing cowardice!", "No,
youdunnit because your credit cards are so maxed out you've taken up part-time prostitution just to service your 29.7% APR debt and the old man just laughed in your face and told you to go pro when you hit him up for a loan!" Airing Of The Grievances right in front of the nice police inspector who's writing it all up in his/her little notebook with an expression of horrified fascination.
As for me, finished two more of those Georgette Heyer standalone mysteries, but will comment on them later when I'm done with the 3rd, for contrast-and-compare purposes.
Also, Anne & Todd McCaffrey's latest Pern book,
Dragon's Time, is due soon at the library, so I'm giving this baffling I'-m-going-to-pretend-this-is-all-AU-fanfic trainwreck reading priority.