Thank you publisher for my copy!
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I unfortunately DNFed this one but I will definitely be reviewing in full when I decide to get back to it. Would still recommend to mystery lovers!

When Mr. and Mrs. Knightley arranged to have a few people over for a House Party they did not expect a murder. As all of the guests were getting to know each other and having dinner an unexpected and uninvited Mr. Wickham shows up. Some of the guest know him and his reception is not at all welcomed. Mr. Wickham is asked to leave but a storm is about to hit so he is spending the night.

As the evening goes on everyone is trying to make the best out of an uncomfortable situation. When they are getting ready for bed and there is a scream and a crash downstairs. Mr. Wickham is dead! Some of the guests have had dealings with Mr. Wickham and do not seem sorry to see him gone. Who could have killed him? Two of the youngest guests are very intrigued by this new twist in an otherwise boring evening and are on the trail of the murderer.

This is a fun and intriguing mystery with interesting characters.

I ended up reading this as a finished audiobook, and I really enjoyed it! I originally requested because of the author more than the content - I love Claudia Gray, and I'm a mystery fan. The tie in to Darcy and Pride and Prejudice didn't do for me what it would do for die hard P&P fans, but I ultimately found that I really enjoyed this. It was fun and engaging, and while it's different from Gray's previous work, definitely enjoyable.

Cute cozy mystery, made especially for Austen fans. If you think you will like this book, you probably will. If you think you won't... well, you probably won't. I thought it was entertaining enough, good for a rainy night when you want nothing better than to hunker down with a murder mystery and a cup of tea (what else). Would recommend to those who I know like this type of thing, but probably not to the general reader just asking for a "good book."

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

A summer house party turns into a whodunit when the villain from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Wickham) meets with a sudden very suspicious end. This book is a must-read for all those who count Pride and Prejudice among their favorite of Austen's books, and I can't help but think that Austen herself would enjoy giving this book a read.

this kind of had everything i wanted. i really did not expect to be so tickled by all that goes on from the murder to the character interactions. i think that the choice to age each couple up or down based on their book's publication date was so clever. wish that anne and wentworth were having more fun tho

This was a fun read! Mix Jane Austen with some Agatha Christie, and modernize them both just a touch, and you come up with this book. I have read a couple of Jane Austen's books, and I was just fine to follow the storyline, but I feel like it might have been even better to be more familiar with her work. I was satisfied with the outcome of the mystery, and I see that there is a sequel releasing this spring, so I'm eager to see Jonathan and Juliet have another adventure.

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for the complimentary digital review copy of this title.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf Doubleday for the ARC of this book. I am reading and reviewing much later than I intended but wanted to share my thoughts.

A summer house party of familiar Austenian characters is intruded upon by Wickham. Rain sets in, trapping them all in the house and necessitating they accommodate Wickham's intrusion. The party is disrupted when he is found murdered.

Johnathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney, the youngest of the party, take it upon themselves to uncover the truth. Secrets, the past, and so much more are unraveled.

This was a fun take on a country house murder with familiar characters brought together in a neat way.

I love the premise but I had trouble getting into the story. I was overwhelmed by all the characters and as someone with a casual knowledge of Austen’s books, (I’ve read P&P and Persuasion only), I may not be the target audience. DNF

The Murder of Mr. Wickham caught my attention as a Jane Austen fan, so I was excited to read this new novel by Claudia Gray. This book features characters from multiple Jane Austen novels, which is a fun detail. I did feel overwhelmed by the amount of characters and POVs.

Perfect book to bring you back into Jane Austin’s world with a Agatha Christie twist. Warm and cozy murder mystery with character you know so well already. It is like reuniting with old friends.

It can be very tricky touching some very beloved characters. And Claudia could have played it safe and just focus on the Darcy's but NOPE she went full tilt giving us a house party filled with couples from various books and the next generation of some much beloved couples. I really loved how she brought all these couples together and how they all of course despise the Villain Wickham..

What a delightful read. It's always enjoyable when an author takes on a well known character from literature and revisits them with a twist. Well written and fun!

This book was a fun sort of murder mystery with many of Jane Austen’s characters. I will admit that I’m actually not a huge Austen fan…to the extent that I didn’t actually realize this was an Austen nod until I did some research. That said, it was enjoyable enough and I’m sure I was missing quite a few references. I imagine someone a bit more knowledgeable would enjoy it more.

Characters from all of Jane Austen's completed novels attend a house party at the Knightley's home. But things quickly go awry when the villain Mr. Wickham first shows up uninvited, and then is murdered by one of the guests. Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney begin an investigation of their own to ensure justice prevails.

I'm usually not a big fan of Austen sequels or mysteries, but a closed door mystery with so many beloved characters was very fun. I liked how everyone had motive and opportunity to be the murderer, and I was guessing all the way to the very satisfying conclusion.

The beloved (as well as at least one not so loved) characters of Jane Austen's books return in this entertaining mystery.
The story takes place at the home of Mr. Knightly and Emma, who are entertaining a house full of characters from others of Austen's books. When the despised Mr. Wickham shows up uninvited, and is soon murdered, almost everyone is a suspect, as they all have reasons to hate him.

The Darcy's son Jonathan was probably my favorite character. He's handsome (of course) but also struggles with social cues. He joins another young female guest to investigate who killed Mr. Wickham.

I feel that people who haven't read the classic novels would be fine in this book and still enjoy the characters and the mystery. Of course, those who have read and loved Austen will have some added fun.

I liked the idea of it but honestly I could not get into it. I tried to come back to it multiple times and just couldn't. There wasn't enough mystery and murder more just non stop descriptions of the people and connections and not much else.

I received an advanced digital copy of this book from the author, publisher and NetGalley.com. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

The Murder of Mr. Wickham is the perfect combination of regency era and modern murder mystery. If Miss Jane Austen and Mrs. Agatha Christie happened to have tea with Dorothy Sayles, this would be the book they would have written. Fun and engaging with great characters, a highly entertaining story!

5 out of 5 stars.

I liked this historical mystery inspired by Jane Austen. The new characters that Claudia Gray created were both wonderful. At times I thought there were too many POV characters though, and I think I would have preferred to just focus on Juliet and Jonathan.

Thank you NetGalley for giving me a copy of this book to review. I moved this one to the top of my pile after receiving an ARC of the second book.

First and foremost, let me say that I have not read a single Jane Austen novel in my life. Not one. So take my review with a grain of salt because there is a 99.999999 percent chance that I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about.

I thought the idea of this book sounded fun. A murder mystery that takes place in the regency time period with many of literature's most well known characters, and maybe this would have been fun... For someone else. This book struggled with pacing issues for me personally from nearly the beginning. I think that this could have been at LEAST one hundred pages shorter. There are so many chapters and perspectives in this book where absolutely nothing of interest or importance is even occurring. The murder itself doesn't even take place until past the thirty percent mark! It just was one long dinner party and vacation that didn't end up until that point and I just found myself waiting and wishing for the murder to just be done and over with so I could move on.... But then it DID happen... and then somehow, NOTHING happened. For seventy percent of the book. NOTHING else happened. Even finding out the murderer wasn't a twist or shocking. It was all just so drawn out.

Speaking of perspectives, there are A LOT of characters here. And again, this likely goes back to me being unfamiliar with the characters in the first place, but there is very little to distinguish them from one another. They are all identical little cookie cutter humans and forgive me for saying this, but so boring.

I realize that I am likely not the right reader for this book, so while I am going to give the second one a chance, I am going in with much lower expectations.