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Lacks wit and suspense
If you're a fan of Jane Austen and P.D. James, Death Comes to Pemberly will disappoint. It has neither Jane Austen's wit nor P.D. James's suspense or character development. There is too much rehashing of the Pride and Prejudice plot, which is surely not needed for those who would be drawn to this book, and, in general, too much "reader feeder." Parts of the book read like a treatise on 19th century legal procedure. Too much narrative and uninteresting detail and too little action. Dialog is sparse and wooden and our favorite characters - Darcy and Elizabeth - hardly have any scenes together and none of the chemistry or electricity of Austen's original.
