“Meaner than Jane Austen”
According to the New York Daily News, the first sentence of Jane Stanton Hitchcock’s new thriller might sound familiar to Janeites.
If Jane Stanton Hitchcock may say so herself, she’s “meaner than Jane Austen.”
Okay, the opening salvo of her new murder mystery, “One Dangerous Lady,” is a tender takeoff on the opening lines of Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” And, “like Austen, I love observing social life, its interactions and minutiae,” says Hitchcock, a socialite with a thriller instinct who first introduced “Dangerous Lady’s” sleuthy heroine, Jo Slater, in her previous novel, “Social Crimes.”
But Hitchcock is more violent, deadly and has far greater savvy about the ways and devious means of Manhattan’s highest society than that other Jane.
