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What Child Is This?

By: Alice K. Boatwright
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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Summary

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.

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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Enjoyable book

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

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Enjoyable

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

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Enjoyable listen

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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A Christmas mystery with an interesting angle

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

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Easy listen - enjoyable

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

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Great story well narrated

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.

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What chide is this.?

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

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A very good sequel

Once again, good plot, well narrated. The characters were less sharply defined than before.

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Easy listen

An easy listen, predictable plot - but like watching ‘ a midsommer episode’ brings a certain comfort on a winters day.

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Lovely story

This book isn’t as good as the first one but I still enjoyed the story.

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