The late Mrs. Willoughby

Summary: Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy team up again to solve the murder of the scoundrel Willoughby's young wife. The Tilneys of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their young daughter out into the social world again: the last house party she attended involved a murder--which she helped solve. She will be the guest of her new friend, Marianne Brandon, who has a scandalous shadow hanging over her. The Darcys of Pemberley are thrilled that their eldest son has been invited to a country house party by an old schoolmate. Other former classmates will be there, for riding and shooting and other proper pastimes for young men. Jonathan is less taken with the idea of sharing a roof with his old bully, but when he finds himself reunited with his sleuthing partner, the radiant Miss Tilney, he doesn't mind so much. When Willoughby's young wife dies horribly in the midst of an elegant party, they have good reasons to spend a great deal of time together ferreting out the truth. Eerie incidents suggest that the killer may strike again, and that the pair may be in far graver danger than they or their families could imagine.