In 19th century England, Jane Austen investigates the murder of a Frenchwoman who struck a man with a horsewhip, during a horse-racing meet in Canterbury.
Stephanie Barron is a pseudonym of Francine Mathews. Francine Mathews is an American author of espionage novels and Nantucket mysteries and writes a Jane Austen mystery series under the name of Stephanie Barron.