The Phantom of Pemberley

A Pride and Prejudice Mystery

By: Regina Jeffers

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

HAPPILY MARRIED for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phantom—a Shadow Man who is haunting the Darcy family’s grand estate. Darcy and Elizabeth believe the truth is much more menacing and that someone is attempting to murder them. But Pemberley is filled with family guests as well as the unexpected travelers—any one of whom could be the culprit—so unraveling the mystery of the murderer’s identity forces the newlyweds to trust each other’s strengths and work together. Written in the style of the era and including Austen’s romantic playfulness and sardonic humor, this suspense-packed sequel to Pride and Prejudice recasts Darcy and Elizabeth as a husband-and-wife detective team who must solve the mystery at Pemberley and catch the murderer—before it’s too late.

Enjoy the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth

The AI reading of the story ruined the pleasure of the book. AI doesn’t know where to put inflections in the voice. It’s aggravating and disturbing.

Excellent story but unfortunate narration

First of all, I love the Austen Pride and Prejudice novel. I’m very familiar with characters. The author handles the Austen characters well while introducing new characters into an excellent story with a very clever twist that I did not figure out until close to the end. The AI narration lacks the ability to provide the required emphasis and sometimes pronounces even the punctuation. It was a distraction but not enough for me to abandon the audiobook. For future purchases I will be sure to avoid any audiobooks with AI narration.

Deserves an Agatha award

Very Agatha Christie in genre, very well written. This is a haunting story of complex characters and situations. There are a number of familiar characters and some guests in this story that provide amusing backstories. I very much enjoy Darcy, Elizabeth and cast of JA’s P & P that have become like family members to readers that have listened to many, many vagaries. It makes the stories so much more interesting when they are so familiar. Well done, riveting story! Virtual voice has its flaws but I’ve experienced worse human narratives. If you tick up the speed it helps. The VV doesn’t offer different voices for the many characters so at times it is difficult to know who’s speaking and often words are mispronounced and wrong inflection is a problem. Not the delivery of a talented voice actor such as Neil Lane Macfarlane, Harry Frost, Stevie Zimmerman etc. The male VV seems a lot better in other Jeffers reads. I would not hesitate to recommend this book for an adventure off the beaten path for ODC.

AI was horrible, good story though

The AI was extremely annoying. The story its÷elf was good. The AI couldn't express any emotions when needed.