Released from the Tower of London by an insurrection against Queen Mary, her half sister, the twentyfiveyearold Princess Elizabeth immediately puts herself back into harm's way by investigating a multiple poisoning. Reprint.
Felicia knew servants' gossip said Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, could be one of the lusty king's bastards, though his mother, ... But Her Grace'll have you back and if she won't, I'll be your patron ... pay you better than Her Grace, ...
“I noted well your pride, too, when you mentioned how you taught the heir, Master Percy, to ride,” she said. “Can you tell me what happened to all of them when they had to move elsewhere?” “Bitter and broken, all of them.
“A spicy smell, rather too strong,” Anne Carey put in, wrinkling her pert nose. “I like it myself, and so does our queen, ... “You must take your sister riding while she's here, as she won't come out of her chamber for me,” Elizabeth ...
Bates went quietly, quickly, up the narrow stairs, which were lit from above. Their prisoner had sat up again but kept shaking his head and rolling his eyes upward, as if he could see through the ceiling and floor over their heads.
As the dog devoured it, Meg went out to watch Her Majesty open the Great Hall doors to the first footer. In the sudden hush in the Great Hall, the single knock echoed. At least it sounded, Elizabeth thought, relieved, as if Sussex was ...
"Harper's facility with historical figures is extraordinary." —Los Angeles Times "Fast-paced, suspenseful...readers will find themselves spellbound by the characters, plotting and plausible period detail."—Publishers Weekly "Harper is ...
Karen Harper’s crowd-pleasing Elizabeth I Mystery series, hailed as “extraordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, continues with this marvelous, majestic novel.
she inquired, for Harry was always mentoring young men of talent. This one would have done for one of her guards or porters with his height and clean, good looks were he not already attired in the new buff-and-brown Hunsdon colors.
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