A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend, Peter. On the plane ride to England, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Richard Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. His outlandish claims that within each Austen novel there is a sordid secondary story is second only to his odious theory on the true cause of Austens death. When Baines is found stabbed to death in his Mr. Darcy costume during the costume ball, it appears that Bainess theories have finally pushed one Austen fan too far. But Aunt Winnies friend becomes the prime suspect, so Aunt Winnie enlists Elizabeth to find the professors real killer.
