And A Crime Through Time – the first book of Blackwell’s Miss Darcy Investigates series – proves to be an engrossing, quirky and original Austen-esque romp as the shy and meek Georgiana is ...

Authors and readers at Oxford Indie Book Fair Co-organiser and author Sylvia Vetta said: "If you don’t have an agent you’re unlikely to be published by the big five.

Blackwell’s depth of research, her allusions to the great author’s life and works, and her joyful love all things Austen, shine through in this time-travelling odyssey which heralds the start of ...