Praise for the Book

“Beautifully written, masterfully plotted, meet a Mary Bennet every bit as fascinating and twice as daring as her more famous sisters.”

-Gretchen Archer, USA Today bestselling author of the Davis Way Crime Capers

“Cowley’s creative continuation of the story of one of literature’s famous forgotten sisters into a world she could never have dreamed possible, broadens her horizons and ours. Following the pedantic Mary Bennet in her adventures after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice was a delight that Jane Austen and mystery fans will embrace and cheer.”
— Laurel Ann Nattress, editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It, and Austenprose.com.

“In The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, Katherine Cowley takes the least interesting sister from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and turns her into the heroine of her own story. It’s very fun to watch Mary transform into a competent spy, but the true delight is how Cowley masterfully keeps Mary true to her pedantic, socially awkward self from Austen’s original while making her a whole person we can root for.”

-Molly Greeley, author of The Clergyman’s Wife: A Pride and Prejudice Novel

“A delightfully fresh take on Miss Mary Bennet. A story I didn’t even realize I was waiting for until I read it.”

-Jess Heileman, author of A Well-Trained Lady