Winner of the Alliance of Independent Authors Self-Publishing Advice Conference 2024 Best Blurb Competition
(October 2024)
Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print prize (self-published category).
(September 2025)
Crime and Prejudice
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Ages: 18+
Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print prize 2025.
What if the beloved characters in Pride and Prejudice were lawbreakers?
Crime and Prejudice imagines a deliciously seamy underside to Jane Austen's world. Arson, highway robbery, petty crime, and murder mingle with fox-hunting, bawdy-houses, gaming-tables, and transportation to Australia in these tales recounted to Elizabeth Darcy by her friends and family.
Discover why Mr. Bennet became a pug owner and a poisoner; how Elizabeth Darcy started a riot while agitating for women's enrolment at Cambridge; where Caroline Bingley found forbidden love; and, of course, when Mr. Darcy actually came by his wet shirt.
For ultimately, it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune has no want at all of a husband.
Reviews
"Delightful vignettes set in a literary world, Jane Austen's, that the author clearly knows inside out and wickedly subverts at every opportunity. Crime and Prejudice displays a refined sense of mischief and a complete mastery of Austen-esque style and tropes. Congratulations to Julia L. Miller!"
"The stories in Crime and Prejudice are wickedly funny in a way that Jane Austen would enjoy. Julia Miller has combined meticulous research into the seamy side of 19th century England with a faultless ear for the voices of the characters of Pride and Prejudice to create for each one a plausible, or at least possible, afterlife that readers will find amusing and sometimes moving."
“A very enjoyable read. Julia Miller's stories are pure Austen in style and substance. Bingley would approve!”
