Phoebe's Mysteries Series by Sydney Tooman Betts

“Is she dead?”While celebrating his birthday, Phoebe’s father discovers a golden-haired stranger unconscious on the parsonage doorstep. None of his guests know who she is, but the friends who provide her a place to live soon suspect her of hiding a secret. Mix in a wealthy industrialist looking for a wife, an English earl masquerading as a commoner, and top with a room full of Jane Austen’s readers, and what do you get? Murder... more“Is she dead?”While celebrating his birthday, Phoebe’s father discovers a golden-haired stranger unconscious on the parsonage doorstep. None of his guests know who she is, but the friends who provide her a place to live soon suspect her of hiding a secret. Mix in a wealthy industrialist looking for a wife, an English earl masquerading as a commoner, and top with a room full of Jane Austen’s readers, and what do you get? Murder.Join Phoebe, a young woman with a knack for eliciting confidences, as she sifts clues to keep a friend from becoming the next victim. less