6 Reworkings Of Pride And Prejudice (That Are Better Than Pride And Prejudice And Zombies)

5. Death Comes To Pemberley

Producing what is, essentially, a sequel to one of the best loved romantic stories of all time is always going to be a tough ask, so perhaps it's a sensible move that this, the final novel of crime icon and Children Of Men writer P.D. James, eschewed further romantic complications in favour of the novelist's murderous milieu. Like with Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, transplanting the already known and loved characters into the conventions of a completely different genre is a fun idea. Unlike with the former's infuriatingly inept writing, however, Death Comes To Pemberley had the seasoned expertise of a Diamond Dagger winning crime writer behind it. It's still written as a total pastiche of Austen's style, but one that is able to capture it a fair bit better than Grahame-Smith. The book, adapted into a passable if somewhat miscast BBC mini-series in 2013, is set six years after the end of the original novel and sees Wickham accused of murder while on his way with wife Lydia to visit the Darcys at Pemberley. Now it's up to Darcy to clear the name of his former friend without putting too much of a strain on his marriage. While it's a little disappointing in a Pride And Prejudice murder mystery to have neither victim nor killer be a character from the original, it's still good fun to see one famous writer's take on a 'what happened next?'/genre mashup kind of fanfic.