“Anglophiles, especially, will adore this book’s many pleasures.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well.” — M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries
In Under an English Heaven, the first Ellie Kent mystery, Ellie trades her San Francisco academic life for marriage to a charming widowed vicar and a fresh start in a picturesque Cotswold village. She expects her greatest challenge will be winning over the locals, who see her as both an outsider and an “incomer.”
But when Ellie stumbles upon a dead man in the churchyard, suspicion falls squarely on her. To clear her name, she must rely on her sharp research skills to unearth long-buried secrets. What she uncovers is a tangled history of lies and betrayals—one that could cost her not only her new life, but her own.
Winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize
