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 from a New York Times bestselling author 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. A
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