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 VINTAGE ORIGINAL
