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A Pawn for a Queen

Fiona Buckley. Scribner Book Company, $24 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-0265-7

In Fiona Buckley's A Pawn for a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court, the sixth in the series, the queen's faithful lady-in-waiting and spy, now widowed, finds herself in the midst of the power struggle between Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots. As in previous entries, fact and fiction blend smoothly in an intricate tale of murder and intrigue.