When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her at 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?
2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize, Chanticleer International Book Awards
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This is the first book in a series. I loved the setting and the characters and am excited to read book 2 which is set during Christmas. It’s a mystery, but so much more!
I really enjoyed this book and What Child is This, another in this collection of mysteries. It is an easy read, the characters are believable and the mysteries intriguing. It reminds me of a BBC Masterpiece series and is a great way to spend your relaxed reading time.
Ellie Kent is an American English professor who fell in love with an English vicar. She has moved to England and is getting used to living in England and being the wife of a vicar and taking on her expected role in the community and church.
One morning she finds a dead body in the cemetery. No one claims to know him, but Ellie had met him the …
I enjoyed this book and especially the fact it was near Oxford where I lived for 5 years. It kept my interest and made me want to keep reading.
I ‘sort of’ recommend this book. I wanted an English village mystery . I got good writing with a heroine I didn’t like. At first, I assumed that Ellie was just a very young woman, newly married to a British Vicar, and is innocent of the world. I soon found that she’s in her mid-thirties, has one failed marriage, and fears she will never be …
I am so glad I discovered this series! When I saw that M.C. Beaton had called author Alice K. Boatwright ‘a great find’ I knew I had to check her out. M.C. Beaton is my favorite cozy mystery author–I LOVE Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth–so I trusted her recommendation. And I was not mistaken. This book was the ultimate cozy mystery—wonderful …
Returning with her new husband Ellie tried to settle in as the new wife of the Victor. While trying to find her place she finds a murder victim, a young kid disappears, an attempted murder an answer to a medical mystery.
UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN
By Alice K. Boatwright
When American Ellie Kent marries the handsome English vicar, she finds herself struggling to fit in with the locals in the quaint English village of Little Beecham. On All Saints Day, she stumbles upon a body in the church cemetery and quickly becomes suspected of murder. She is a foreigner, after …
This mystery had great flow and characters and I couldn’t put it down. Of course, like always, there were times when I’d think, “Idiot! Don’t go in there! Don’t touch that!”. But how do you write a mystery if the hero or heroine don’t do stupid things to implicate themselves or to botch the case? Also, I guessed correctly who the murderer was …
I thoroughly enjoyed this murder mystery.
Set in a village in the Cotswolds, it is a cross between Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders.
Well written with great characters.
Charming
Loved this book. The characters were believable and easy to care about. I thought I knew who “done it “, but kept second guessing myself. Really enjoyable book.
I love this book and have already downloaded the sequel. A very good writer.
Under an English Heaven by author Alice K. Boatwright is an enchanting cozy mystery about American Ellie who marries an English vicar, Graham Kent, and moves to a small village in rural England where she quickly becomes known Mrs. Vicar. All is not calm in this sleepy little village as first one then two murders shock the residents of Little …
I enjoyed this book and its characters immensely and thought about them long after I was finished. An American scholar marries a vicar and moves to a quaint English village, only to be suspected in the murder of an Italian outsider. She solves several mysteries and maintains her marriage, all with integrity and spunk. A very enjoyable cozy.
This is the first book in this series. Also this is the first book that I have read by this author. I enjoyed the read. I do feel that the characters need to be made to have more depth. But for a first book in the series I think it was good. I kept reading and wanted to read more. It just didn’t hook me to want to not but the book down like some …