REVIEW: Jane Steele: A Confession

A novel by Lyndsay Faye

Jane Eyre meets Dexter in this darkly humorous crime novel inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s classic. Jane Steele, orphaned as a child, struggles with guilt over becoming a “murderess” several times over, beginning with the accidental death of a predatory male cousin. Jane’s dark secrets grow as she is sent to a strict boarding school. As an adult, Jane escapes to London and earns a living writing last confessions of hanged criminals before taking a post as governess to a dark and brooding hero, with a shadowed past of his own. This is a wonderful read for fans of Jane Eyre and Gothic literature.

— Reviewed by Lindsay Clark, Mount Pleasant Regional Library, Mount Pleasant, S.C.

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