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Author
Series
Simon and Elizabeth mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As England's young king struggles with illness, one of his advisors is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. When Elizabeth herself is accused of the murders, Simon faces a fight for his life against a wickedly clever adversary who will not be caught.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A novel based on long-standing rumors that Elizabeth I had given birth to an illegitimate child follows young Elinor de Lacey--the purported daughter of Elizabeth and her married guardian, Thomas Seymour--who is sent to become a lady-in-waiting to the queen.
Author
Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
10) The hooded hawke
Author
Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Leaving London for a journey around the country, Queen Elizabeth I and her court, accompanied by a young Francis Drake, are confronted by someone shooting arrows at the queen and the captain, both of whom have cousins who may want them dead.
Author
Series
Giordano Bruno novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When several of the queen's maids of honor are found dead, rumors of black magic abound. Elizabeth calls upon her personal astrologer, John Dee, and Giordano Bruno to solve the crimes. While Dee turns to a mysterious medium claiming knowledge of the murders, Bruno fears that something far more sinister is at work.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In England, 1554, in the wake of the failed Wyatt Rebellion, a vengeful Queen Mary has ordered all conspirators to be captured and executed. Among the imprisoned is her own sister, twenty-one-year-old Princess Elizabeth, who longs to gain her liberty and her sister's crown.
Author
Series
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The "lively" (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series continues with this thriller about Queen Elizabeth I's advisor John Dee in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript that offers global power. With rumors of the end times swirling, philosopher and astronomer John Dee travels to Prague in an effort to prevent one of Catherine de Medici's seductive ladies-in-waiting from luring the Holy Roman Emperor into a crusade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1559. Elizabeth is about to be crowned queen of England and wants her personal musician Kate Haywood to prepare music for the festivities. New to London, Kate must learn the ways of city life?and once again school herself as a sleuth. Life at the center of the new royal court is abuzz with ambition and gossip?very different from the quiet countryside, where Kate served Elizabeth during her exile. Making her way among the courtiers who vie for the...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
England is in tumult under the rule of Queen Mary and her Spanish husband. Confined to house arrest at Hatfield House, young Princess Elizabeth is the country?s greatest hope. Far from court intrigues, Elizabeth finds solace in simple things: the quiet countryside and peaceful recreation, including the melodies of her chief musician and his daughter, Kate Haywood. But Kate will prove herself most valuable when an envoy of the queen?sent to flush out...
19) The huntress
Author
Series
Dark Queen novels volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1585, and prophecy has foretold the coming of a daughter of the Earth whose powers are so extraordinary they could usurp the very rule of the Dark Queen herself, Catherine de Medici. Dispatched from Brittany to London, Catriona O'Hanlon, known as the Huntress, must find this mysterious young girl and shield her from those who will exploit her mystic abilities, which have the potential to change the course of history.