The Murder of Mr. Wickham

By: Claudia Gray

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

A summer house 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 mystery featuring Austen’s leading literary characters.

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

The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances—characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when 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 impressions and uncover the guilty party—before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.

Totally enjoyable

Excellent Austen style story recreating the awful Mr Wickham and the Bennett sisters and Darcy family. Satisfying whodunnit also. Very credible performances. Too bad it had to end.

Good follow up to pride and prejudice

I like the fact that the writer utilized a lot of other characters from Jane Austin novels and it did justice to how the characters will behave . The only criticism is the length of the plot it lingers too long to get the culprit . Overall entertaining

Excellent

Well worth the credit. It was well written and truly enjoyed. Ties in with Austen’s other books

People and manners interact to form a delightful new pair of regency sleuths.

Excellent use of known and new characters. The ambience of Austin was well caught. In a stiff and reticent society, looking at the world neurologically differently has interesting results.

An interesting premise, but...

Some of the characterizations of the original Austen characters didn't quite ring true. And I wish the writing had been a little better. Still it was an amusing read.