Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-28036-9
In her latest mystery featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, Emerson offers an intriguing look at one of the many attempts to replace Protestant Queen Elizabeth I with the Roman Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. Sad to say, the plot gets thoroughly muddled...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author . Perseverance $13.95 (231p) ISBN 978-1-880284-82-7
Set in Buxton, Derbyshire, in 1575, the 10th entry in Emerson's Elizabethan historical series (Face Down Under the Wych Elm
, etc.) smoothly mixes engaging characters, political intrigue, period customs and crime. Rosamond Appleton, the...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (223p) ISBN 978-1-880284-91-9
Emerson’s engrossing 16th-century mystery (her 11th, after 2006’s Face Down Beside St. Anne’s Well
) plunges readers into the middle of Scottish domestic drama and political intrigue from the first page. Series heroine Susanna,...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author . Pemberley $17.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-9771913-5-2
Set in Maine in 1888, Emerson's fourth and final mystery in her Diana Spaulding series (Deadlier Than the Pen
, etc.) offers plenty of intrigue, eccentric characters and well-researched history. Diana's fiancé, Dr. Ben Northcote,...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-20544-7
Emerson has the place names and customs right in this Elizabethan whodunnit set in 1565, but too often her lords and ladies and various commoners, despite the occasional archaism (""certes,"" ""mayhap""), sound and act like stock characters in a...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-28823-5
Have all the years that Susanna, Lady Appleton spent experimenting with poison herbs unleashed an evil that could account for all the dead bodies she encounters? No, Kathy Lynn Emerson's latest, Face Down Across the Sea, doesn't contain any ...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Orchard Books (NY) $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-531-05719-3
That her parents go to China to be missionaries is bad enough for Julia, 12, who stays behind, but leaving the city she has always known to live on her relatives' farm is even worse and one day after she arrives there, she breaks her leg. Julia's...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-70734-8
Twelve-year-old Julia, mending from a broken leg, finds maturity as she recovers from the disappointment at being left behind when her parents go abroad. PW found this first novel ``fully delineated'' and ``well sustained.'' Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Avon Books $2.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-76138-8
Kim's father, a New York City detective whose hobby is bagpiping, has taken his family to a bagpipe school. It's run by wealthy, goodhearted Ben Orseck, who has invited several pipers and their families to camp on his Maine estate. When valuable...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-18092-8
Treason, conspiracy and political scheming in Elizabethan England form a complex and sinister background for Lady Susanna Appleton's latest foray into sleuthing. The self-assured and feisty herbalist and author of A Cautionary Herbal, who was last...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-26589-2
This workmanlike historical of witchcraft, murder and greed, the fifth in the series (after Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross), begins slowly but ends with an exciting rush. Shortly after Elizabeth I returns her realm to Protestantism from Mary I's
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Kathy Lynn Emerson. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8459-6
Fans of Emerson’s historical mysteries will be intrigued by the debut of grown-up Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey as “intelligence gatherer” in this first in a new Tudor series. Negotiations for an English princess to marry Russia’s Ivan the Terrible...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8538-8
In Emerson’s able second Mistress Jaffrey mystery set in Tudor England (after 2014’s Murder in the Queen’s Wardrobe), Godlina Walkenden quarrels violently with her brother-in-law, London mercer Hugo Hackett, over his plans to marry her to Allesandro
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Kathy Lynn Emerson. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8676-7
Set in 1584, Emerson’s swashbuckling third Mistress Jaffrey mystery (after 2015’s Murder in the Merchant’s Hall) takes Rosamond Jaffrey, a gentlewoman who has worked as an intelligence gatherer, from London to Cornwall, where her stepfather, Sir...
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Kathy Lynn Emerson, Author, Emerson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20542-3
For the third entry in her sparkling series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman Susanna, Lady Appleton, Emerson (Face Down Upon an Herbal, etc.) spins a tale of serial murder complicated by political intrigue. In April 1563, Susanna and her husband,...
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