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What Child Is This?

By: Alice K. Boatwright
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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It's Christmas in the Cotswold village of Little Beecham...a season to celebrate with caroling, mistletoe, and mince pies.

In this sequel to Under an English Heaven, newlywed American Ellie Kent is looking forward to her first English village Christmas, but a missing Oxford student and an abandoned baby soon draw her away from the fireside into danger.

When a body is discovered on Boxing Day, Ellie comes to believe all these events may be linked through a group of teenage girls who identify with Shakespeare's tragic Ophelia. The police scoff at her theory, so Ellie pursues her own investigation to identify their secret Hamlet, who may be a killer.

Don't miss the first Ellie Kent mystery - the 2016 winner of the Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for best mystery. In Under an English Heaven, life brings the skeptical American Ellie Kent to a village in the Cotswolds as the vicar's new wife, but death keeps her guessing how long she'll be there.

©2017 Alice K. Boatwright (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Detective Genre Fiction Holidays Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Village Winter Christmas

Critic Reviews

"Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well. A great find." (M. C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mysteries)

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Enjoyed this book very much and would like mores of series. Nice characterisation and well told.

Good read

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A beautiful cosy mystery which left me with a lump in my throat. hope the author shall write more books in the series

A beautiful cosy mystery

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Enjoyed the story and performance, dark themes , no blood and gore!well balanced story telling

Cozy murder

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It's not amazing, not bad. It kept me listening, even if I had to switch my brain off a heap of times at decisions the author made.

A simple, engaging mystery

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This was and ok story Found the narration annoying in places. storyline was alright.

ok

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