{"id":4137,"date":"2025-02-13T18:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:25:39","slug":"miss-caroline-bingley-private-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 16, 2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen\u2019s birth, and what better way to celebrate than with this delightful reimagining of Elizabeth Bennet\u2019s antagonist from <em>Pride and Prejudice.<\/em><\/strong> Two years after the events of that novel, in which the snobby and haughty Miss Caroline Bingley lost the battle for Mr. Darcy\u2019s affections, she is \u201cmarooned\u201d at her brother Charles\u2019s estate in wintry Derbyshire, bored with weeks of country dances, unchanging society, and dull conversations. Despite her complicated relationship with the Darcys, Caroline has grown fond of Mr. Darcy\u2019s younger sister, Georgiana. When Georgiana\u2019s Indian maid, Jayani, disappears from Pemberley and Georgiana heads up to London alone in pursuit, Caroline, accompanied by her loyal manservant, Gordon, tracks both fugitives and stumbles upon a brutal murder that implicates Jayani. Drawing on her keen intelligence, her bold self-confidence, and her large income, our Miss Bingley plunges into a gritty underworld of poverty, cruelty, and exploitation far from London\u2019s glittering Ton. As she seeks to clear Jayani\u2019s name, she also discovers the brutal colonialism practiced by the East India Company. Australian authors Gardiner (<em>1917<\/em>) and Kumar (who produces Melbourne\u2019s Austencon) transform Austen\u2019s mean girl into a more sympathetic protagonist while preserving her quick wit, sharp tongue, and independent spirit. Janeites will eagerly await Miss Bingley\u2019s next adventure in sleuthing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen\u2019s birth, and what better way to celebrate than with this delightful reimagining of Elizabeth Bennet\u2019s antagonist from Pride and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,55],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Miss-Caroline-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Miss-Caroline-400x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Willy Williams","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=7"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}