The Framing of George Wickham

By: Mindy Killgrove

Narrated by: Heidi Hecker

He’s guilty and they know it.

When Lydia Wickham is struck down in the middle of the day, everyone turns to her husband, George Wickham, for answers, but he has nothing to tell them. He has no idea what happened to his wife. The task of investigating the matter falls to Kitty, Lydia’s sister, and Mr. Andrew Selkirk, a neighbor who is recuperating from an injury sustained while working as a member of the Bow Street Horse Patrol. Is George Wickham as innocent as he claims? Or did he hurt his wife and hope to get away with it?

©2025 Mindy Killgrove (P)2025 Mindy Killgrove

200 Years Later What a Spinoff in the Making

Former Bennett sisters Kitty and Lydia of the Pride and Prejudice characters and their husbands George Wickham and Dr. Lewis Lovell are front and center in this historical British mystery.

If you wonder whatever happened to secondary characters long after a book finished, this book imagines where are they now and what are they up to.

Lydia and George Wickham are up to their foot loose and fancy free antics, but this time it brings trouble to the doorstep in a nefarious series of events.

Heidi Hecker's British accents lends that extra layer of setting the narrative in historical England. The six hours flies by without having to place total focus on the events as they unfold. The storyline is easy to follow with just enough intrigue so you don't tune out and lose interest.

Mindy Killgrove writes a twist on the classical characters from Pride and Prejudice at a time well after the story we are familiar with. There aren't the pretense regarding the heavy nuances of the speech and thought of that time making it much easier to follow than the classic. At the same time, there is enough of the language nuances to mask that it was written two hundred years later. The surprising revelation of who done it was definitely not whom I thought did it.

This review is based on Advanced Listener Copy provided to me for purpose of review.

Mystery

This was a very interesting mystery! I really enjoyed listening as the tale unfolded, and was pleasantly surprised at the ending! I loved that the gist of the story involved clean romance, while pointing out the perils of untoward actions and licentious behavior. The tone of the story stayed true to the works of Jane Austin, and the story was easy to put into that genre. I received an ARC copy and this is my review.

Who did what???

I love this addition to Pride and Prejudice. It really wasn’t what I was expecting, but this book blew my mind. All the characters were really well developed. I feel the writing style was amazing when it comes to this dialect of English or English. The narrator did really well with this speech pattern and word choice. I feel like everything flowed really well and made this story really immersive.