A Matter of Murder

Tirzah Price

• Publisher: Storytide
• eBook ISBN:
  9780063278097
• Year: 2025

The thrilling conclusion to the Lizzie & Darcy Mysteries duology, following Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy from the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries series!

A Bingley family curse looms over Lizzie's sister and Darcy's best friend—but are the dark forces at work supernatural or human?

Lizzie Bennet’s beloved sister Jane has just married Darcy’s best friend, Bingley, and the Bennet family and Darcy are paying the newlyweds a visit at Bingley’s family home, Netherfield Park. It doesn’t take long for their country retreat to turn into an investigation, though, when a long-dead body is discovered stuffed up the parlor chimney.

The locals are convinced that Netherfield is cursed, but Lizzie and Darcy know better than to believe in such nonsense and are determined to uncover the truth about what happened to the mysterious man in the chimney. But as they dig deeper into the history of Netherfield Park, they find that danger is waiting for them around every corner. Soon enough, they’re forced to consider if the curse might have some merit to it, or if there’s something—or someone—far more sinister behind their near brushes with death. . . .

This duology closer is a daring and delightful conclusion to the chronicles of supersleuths Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy!

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• One: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Arrive at Netherfield Park at Last
• Two: In Which Darcy Plays the Part of Chimney Sweep with Disastrous Results
• Three: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Make a Wager
• Four: In Which Darcy Wins the Aforementioned Wager, Much to Lizzie’s Annoyance
• Five: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Declare a Tentative Truce
• Six: In Which Darcy Acquires a Lead of His Own
• Seven: In Which Lizzie Extends a Rather Impulsive Invitation
• Eight: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Learn the Origin of the Netherfield Curse
• Nine: In Which Lizzie and Charlotte Find Themselves in a Precarious Position
• Ten: In Which Lizzie Makes a Midnight Discovery
• Eleven: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Conceal and Uncover Various Secrets
• Twelve: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Take an Unplanned Detour
• Thirteen: In Which Lizzie Takes a Swing and Misses
• Fourteen: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Cause a Scene
• Fifteen: In Which Lizzie Finds a Clue and Loses Something Invaluable
• Sixteen: In Which Lizzie Questions Her Prime Suspect
• Seventeen: In Which Darcy Receives Some Unsolicited Advice
• Eighteen: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Strike an Unexpected Bargain
• Nineteen: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Hear Sally Burton’s Testimony
• Twenty: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Attend a Ball, with Detrimental Results
• Twenty-One: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Come Clean
• Twenty-Two: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Arrive at Pemberley
• Twenty-Three: In Which Darcy and Georgiana Have a Heart-to-Heart
• Twenty-Four: In Which Lizzie and Georgiana Encounter a Pair of Trespassers
• Twenty-Five: In Which Lizzie Finally Comes Face-to-Face with Her Nemesis
• Twenty-Six: In Which Lizzie and Darcy Pursue Lady Catherine, with Unlikely Help
• Twenty-Seven: In Which Lizzie Receives a Proper Proposal
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Books by Tirzah Price
• Copyright
• About the Publisher