"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 has left behind her college teaching job and life in San Francisco to marry a handsome widowed vicar and live in a Cotswold village. At first, she thinks her biggest challenge will be to gain acceptance from the villagers as a foreigner and "incomer." But, when she discovers a dead man in the churchyard, her outsider status leads to her becoming the prime suspect in his murder. To prove her innocence, Ellie finds she must draw on her research skills to unravel a web of decades-old secrets before more people die—and her new life unravels too. Winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize "Anglophiles, especially, will adore this book's many pleasures." - Kirkus Reviews "Alice Boatwright is not only a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well. A great find." - M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries Alice K. Boatwright is an award-winning author writing in several genres, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era, which won the Bronze Medal for Literary Fiction from the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards; and Under an English Heaven, her first Ellie Kent mystery, which won the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize. The popular Ellie Kent series has continued with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After . She is also the author of dozens of stories, the chapbook Sea, Sky, Islands, and the book for children and families , Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving.