Under An English Heaven An Ellie Kent Mystery, De Boatwright, Alice K. Editorial Cozy Cat Press, Tapa Blanda En Inglés, 2014

Descripción

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her as that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard. The villagers insist they don’t know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar’s new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story. Will others die before she can solve it? And what will be left of her new life and marriage, even if she succeeds?

Not only is Alice Boatwright a skilled detective writer, but also a first-class storyteller. A great find. - M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mysteries

Anglophiles, especially, will adore this book's many pleasures, which include winning character descriptions, a sexy vicar, plenty of tea, and a portrait of the lack of privacy in a small English town: "All the world's a stage," she thought, was clearly written by someone who lived in an English village. - Kirkus Reviews

You can't miss the draw of all the tea and cake and crisp autumn air and walks with the dog. . . You know it’s going to come right, and the fun is all in the how, and of course the quirky characters. - Books for Readers

In Alice K. Boatwright's first mystery, UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN, life brings the skeptical American Ellie Kent to an English village as the vicar’s new wife; but death keeps her guessing how long she'll be there. Winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for best mystery, UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN has attracted an enthusiastic following. The sequel, WHAT CHILD IS THIS?, was published in November 2017; and the third in the series will be released in late 2020.

Alice is also the author of COLLATERAL DAMAGE, three linked novellas about the long-term impact of the Vietnam War. COLLATERAL DAMAGE was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award and received the Bronze Medal for Literary Fiction from the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards.