A summerhouse party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham, one of literature's most notorious villains, meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mysteryfrom a New York Times bestselling author featuring Austen's leading literary characters.

The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-charactersbeloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broaderarray of enemies. As tempers flare and secretsare revealed, it's clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they're all shockedwhen Wickham turns up murdered-except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.

Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party's two youngest guests to solve the mystery- Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys' eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. In this tantalizing fusion of Austen and Christie, from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray, the unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressionsand uncover the guilty party-before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.

"Had Jane Austen sat down to write a country house murder mystery, this is exactly the book she would have written." -Alexander McCall Smith
 

Title: The Murder of Mr Wickham
Author: Claudia Gray
ISBN: 9780593313817
Publisher: Penguin Random House Distribution
Year: 2022