User Reviews

I'm quite surprised by the generally negative reviews for this one. I liked the storyline, the concept of The Kembleford Boggart is a good one, life imitating art and vice versa. The complexity of relationship between Hannah and her father, Jeremiah, between Jeremiah at the travellers is where the mystery is. It was obvious who was going to be the victim, it followed the Murder she wrote rule of killing the most unpleasant character. Very well acted, Simon Williams in particular was great. It's a good mystery, with a good story. Enjoyable, 7/10.

This is the story of a female writer Hannah Moxley who wrote some books and is known for it. Her father Jeremiah is very bossy and possessive.

Her father sees a gold chalice being stolen by a man that lives in a gypsy like camp, he brings the police. The man has a rifle and threatens Jeremiah.

As the story progressives you see how Jeremiah hates the campers. He thinks he is better than them and wants his daughter to have nothing to do with them. He is later found dead.

This story becomes impossible to believe even as a mystery. As Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy investigate what happened they find a nursery set up in the attic. You don't hear the sound of a baby or anything to make you think a live baby is alive. Who would leave their baby up in the attic for no one to care for it for any reason.

Supposedly this is Hannah's baby. There is no one but her and her father in the house to care for the baby and later after her father's death Hannah shows up with a baby a few months old in her arms.

It all ends nice but too hard to believe.

Local squire Jeremiah Moxley is a dominant personality which makes him hugely disliked. He exerts control and dominance over his daughter Hannah even though she is a successful young writer. His over protectiveness extends to reading and answering her fan mail.

Moxley also has a public falling out with the local gypsies who he accuses of being involved in theft.

When Moxely's dead body is found the prime suspect is young gypsy lad Alfons. Inspector Sullivan is very confident that he has the right man.

Father Brown who was acting as a chaperone for Hannah is unsure and thinks that her fan mail holds clues that will lead to the real killer.

The episode took a while to get going and it was rather hard to take in. The involvement of a hidden nursery and a seemingly abandoned baby just made the whole thing too far fetched.

I am a big FB fan but this episode is very poor. Storyline is so far out there to be in another orbit. Mrs McCarthy becomes a caricature and the main premise is ridiculous.

Wouldn't it be something if instead of getting a morality lesson about how Gypsies would never do anything like steal, or leave behind a pregnant girl, we actually got a MYSTERY, where everyone was a suspect, and we had to look for clues to tell who did it, not simply point to the character that wasn't politically correct, and know it was them? Yeah, tell that to people who watch My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding! Paints a different picture.

When the father - Jeremiah- of a young writer is found dead, tensions mount against the travellers in Kembleford, and the priest races to find out who actually committed the murder before one of them - a traveller - is wrongly sent to the gallows. Jeremiah had recently had a run in with Alfons, a traveler who is in the village during their annual sojourn, accusing him of stealing a gold chalice from the church. Oddly, Father Brown sees similarities between Jeremiah murder and events in his his daughter Hannah's soon to be published second novel. Finding the link between the novel and real life is central to solving the murder.

An ok episode, and if just a tad confusing. The identity of the killer was predictable as there wasn't many suspects. It's flat in places but fills the time adequately.