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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

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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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pleasant book . Nice characters. I knew the ending before it was explained but it helped with the time at work in solitude .

Enjoyable

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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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Overall this is another good yarn, well performed. Unfortunately the author hasn’t taken the time to research the English language, referring to the Nativity as the crèche throughout rather ruins the impression of the story taking place in an English village

Shame about Americanisms

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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

Enjoyable listen

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Better than average writing. Gives a good feel of a situation without tediously long descriptive waffle as some authors do.

Got quite gripping

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Enjoyed the story,well read.Characters are well thought out & are varied. Look forward to more in the series.

A Christmas mystery with an interesting angle

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Second in series, really enjoyed it.
Great narrator - the Americanisms only jarred if they came from a British character.
Recommended

Easy listen - enjoyable

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I really enjoyed this audiobook and had finished it within a couple of days.
The narrator set the scene well and I could imagine all the characters and situations as if it were a film.

My only gripe is the use of ‘Committed’ suicide, a term we do not use anymore.

Great story well narrated

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Enjoyed the story once I got into it. Narrator sound like she had a cold

What chide is this.?

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