Alice K. Boatwright

Ellie Kent Mystery

1 - Under an English Heaven (Mar-2014)
2 - What Child Is This? (Oct-2017)
3 - In the Life Ever After (Jan-2024)
4 - Summer’s End (Oct-2026)

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  Collateral Damage
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  In these three linked novellas, Boatwright explores the lasting effects of the Vietnam War on those living in its shadow-both those who fought and those who didn't. These moving stories from one of American history's most divisive eras show us that V...

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  Shadows of Vietnam
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  How long does it take for a war to end? In Shadows of Vietnam, three linked novellas tell the stories of an America bitterly divided during the Vietnam War and the long reach of those conflicts in the decades afterward. From 1968, when Toby Woodruff...

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  Under an English Heaven
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Mystery
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  Ellie Kent Mystery - 1
  

  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 myster...

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  What Child Is This?
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Ellie Kent Mystery - 2
  

  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...

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  Sea, Sky, Islands
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / Literary
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  In this trilogy of stories about life in the San Juan Islands, a teacher fantasizes about her favorite author to ease her loneliness, an islander finds love with a precariously sober alcoholic, and a young couple has to make sacrifices to keep their ...

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  In the Life Ever After
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / Mystery
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  Ellie Kent Mystery - 3
  

  The cold, dark winter in the Cotswolds is finally coming to an end, so Ellie and Graham Kent celebrate with a belated honeymoon in Paris. But news from Little Beecham casts a shadow over their holiday: convicted murderer Corinna Matthews has been...

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  Summer’s End
  

  • Oct-2026
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Ellie Kent Mystery - 4
  

  American Ellie Kent has been looking forward to Little Beecham's traditional climax to the summer, when her husband Graham and the Beecham Morris will perform an 11th-century horn dance in the woods by the light of the full moon. Never could ...

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  Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving
  

  • / General Fiction
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  In this new holiday classic, inspired by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the miserly Martha Potts is reminded that there's more to life than work and money after chance encounters with a homeless woman and a stray cat, who comes to stay. Between ...

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