Full title: The matters at Mansfield, or, the Crawford affair
This is the fourth book in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, covering what happened to Elizabeth and Darcy after they got married. This entry incorporates characters from Mansfield Park, as all the books have ‘reused’ one of Jane Austen’s other novels. We find Elizabeth and Darcy at a ball, where Lady Catherine and Darcy’s cousin Anne are also found. Elizabeth encourages Anne to dance with a young man as Lady Catherine is playing cards and won’t know. BUt it turns out that Anne has been betrothed to a young man of title, who Darcy and Darcy’s cousin Fitzwilliam do not think is suitable – he beats his animals, so how would he treat his wife?
Anne solves this be eloping (the cover tells us this, so I’m not embarrassed by the spoiler) and that is when the mystery really begins. Anne’s new husband is a character from Mansfield park, and you can imagine that leaves him lots of space to be of low character.
I won’t spoil how it all runs, except to say that those who manage to stay alive, live happily ever after 
Bebris’ stories are great. I really like the way she evokes the period, and the developments with characters from the other novels is very well done. If you are into historical fiction or just Jane Austen, you will enjoy this.
After a pleasant night at a ball, Mr. Darcy and his wife, Elizabeth, are stunned to learn that Darcy’s cousin, Anne de Bourgh, the daughter of the formidable Lady Catherine, has eloped with rakish Henry Crawford. Lady Catherine is incensed, as she’d promised Anne’s hand in marriage to Neville Sennex, the brutish son of a senile nobleman. Lady Catherine is horrified to discover Henry once had an affair with a married woman in Mansfield, but she’s floored when a young woman claims to have married Henry several years ago. With his freedom and possibly his life on the line, Henry flees—only to be found dead days later, leaving the Darcys to suss out who did him in.
