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What Child Is This?

By: Alice K. Boatwright
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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About this listen

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

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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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Lighter than most murder mysteries although easily worked it out way before the end I still enjoyed it

Enjoyable book

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first time with this author. liked the plot and characters were linked. narration good. I would recommend this book to those who like lightweight crime novels.

enjoyable

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Well use of the classics for romance for bringing students out of them selves as well as hidden clues

Deaths and disappearance as well red herrings

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Well paced murder mystery, easy to listen to, but sadly badly let down my the American narrator who understandably has little idea of English pronunciation. Pity, as it’s set in a Cotswold village and thus close to Oxford, one would have hoped that at the very least the Oxford colleges mentioned might be pronounced correctly. I’m sure lots of Americans would be likewise upset if an English narrator couldn’t pronounce Arkansas for example.
That said, I would listen to another mystery with the same main characters, but just be prepared to shout out the correct way to say things, if only to make myself feel better

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Really enjoyable.
Well written and entertaining.
Very good of its genre.
Just the right amount of predictable.

Really enjoyable.

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