What became of the brilliant Miss Caroline Bingley after Mr Darcy married Elizabeth Bennet?

At AustenCon in 2019, I presented a talk on Jane Austen’s literary legacy, and suggested that Miss Caroline Bingley, the iconic character from Pride and Prejudice, would make an excellent private detective. Our host Sharmini Kumar leapt at the idea, and began plotting and planning. When we realised we were both equally excited about Miss Bingley’s potential career solving crime, we decided to write a novel together, collaborating online during lockdown.

Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective will be published in April 2025 by HarperCollins Australia & New Zealand, HarperCollins US imprint HarperVia and HarperCollins UK imprint HQ.

Here’s the blurb:

Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is living at her brother’s country estate, within an easy ride of Mr and Mrs Darcy’s home, Pemberley. When Georgiana Darcy’s maid goes missing, Georgiana secretly runs away to search for her maid in London, and Caroline feels she has no choice but to follow, to keep her young friend out of trouble.

Caroline arrives in London, quickly discovers where Georgiana is staying, and realises that she has a gift for deduction. She tracks down Georgiana’s maid, Jayani, who is accused of murdering her own brother, Sameer. Investigating the murder brings Caroline into contact with people she would otherwise never encounter, from the magistrate Mr Pickersgill to malevolent landladies, to members of Regency London’s bustling Indian community and mysterious representatives of the East India Company.

More of Miss Bingley’s adventures lie in the future.