"I didn't even know they existed," James admits with a laugh. But those sequels didn't inspire James to take up the Austen plotline. There's no shortage of Austen-inspired sequels out there: from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. At first, life is peaceful and prosperous, but as the novel's name suggests, it's not quite happily ever after - "a rather ghastly murder" is discovered in the Pemberley woodlands, James says. It's been six years since their marriage, and they have two healthy, handsome little boys. Darcy settled into Darcy's ancestral home. Pemberley picks up with Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. "One is for the novels of Jane Austen and the second is for writing detective fiction." "I had this idea at the back of my mind that I'd like to combine my two great enthusiasms," James tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. James inhabits the world of Jane Austen - specifically, Pride and Prejudice. In her new book, Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. Dalgliesh populates many of James' stories, but not her latest. James is best known for her creation Adam Dalgliesh - a pensive, private Scotland Yard detective shaped by his own personal tragedy.
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