When English exile Sir Anthony Shelby is murdered in Strasbourg, his daughter Cordell must accept the protection of marriage to his friend Roger Allington in order to return home to the dubious safety of Mary Tudor's England, where both are caught up in the plots around the Queen's sister Elizabeth

Winter Tapestry

Romance

Emerson, Kathy Lynn

Historical

Harpercollins

A woman is content with her quiet life in Maine--her marriage and her thriving needlecraft business--until frightening dreams of a forgotten past shatter her peace. Original.

Echoes and Illusions (Harper Monogram)

Contemporary

Years after she and her mother had been sent away from Catsholme Manor under mysterious circumstances, Thomasine Strangeways returns and is reunited with her childhood friend, Nick Carrier, now a brooding and bitter widower. Original.

Unquiet Hearts (Harper Monogram)

A beautiful young widow has nothing to bargain with except herself when her late husband's trading vessel The Green Rose does not return, but her mock betrothal to Sir Grey Neville soon blossoms into love. Original.

The Green Rose

A woman is content with her quiet life in Maine--her marriage  and her thriving needlecraft business--until frightening dreams of a  forgotten past shatter her peace.

Echoes and Illusions

"Today's letter was not a summons to serve Queen Elizabeth. It came from Lancashire. John Bexwith, my steward at Appleton Manor, is dead." Susanna frowned, surprised that this news should have affected her husband so strongly. "The man was quite elderly," she said hesitantly, "was he not?" "Your memory is excellent," Robert told her, absently tucking an unruly lock of dark brown hair back up under her brocaded cap. "He was found face down in a marrow-bone pie." With that incredible statement, Robert placed the letter in his wife's outstretched hand. Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie is a delightfully cozy Elizabethan mystery introducing Susanna, Lady Appleton. When her husband's steward dies in a unique, ignominious, and highly suspicious manner, Susanna takes advantage of her husband's absence on a political mission for Queen Elizabeth to investigate Bexwith's mysterious demise. The serving wench who found Bexwith claims that he was frightened to death by a ghost, but Susanna can think of several poisons that could have been concealed in the marrow-bone pie. (Susanna is something of an expert on poisons, having been inspired by her sister's fatal encounter with some poisonous berries to write a cautionary herbal for housewives.) Even if Bexwith was poisoned, was it accidental or intentional? As if the case weren't complicated enough, Susanna must also unmask a "ghost"-- or are the ghost and the poisoner one and the same? Kathy Lynn Emerson's debut Elizabethan mystery will delight as it introduces you to a sixteenth-century husband's worst nightmare: an intelligent, no-nonsense wife who happens to know hundreds of poisons.

Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie: An Elizabethan Mystery

Literature & Fiction

United States

Minotaur Books

Having written the definitive book on poisons, Susanne knows she must find the link between her herbal and the man who was found dead reading it before it is too late.

Face Down upon an Herbal

St Martins Pr

She heard him come up behind her, expected him to turn her in his arms and embrace her with a lover's enthusiasm. Instead, his forearm abruptly cut off her supply of air as it pressed into her throat. A harsh whisper, close to her ear, was the last thing she heard before one abrupt movement snapped her neck. "Whore," her murderer said. "No better than a Winchester goose." It is the spring of 1563, and Susanna, Lady Appleton, wants only to tend to the medicinal herbs in the garden of her London townhouse. But the appearance of a mysterious veiled woman disrupts her plans. Is the woman just another mistress of Robert's, her forever-philandering husband? When the gentlewoman is found dead with a snapped neck in London's notorious brothel district, and her last known visitor was Robert, Lady Appleton is forced to investigate. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she uncovers a string of murders from years dark-haired of dark-ahaired women, all occurring on St. Mark's Day, and, most perplexing, all with a goose feather left by the bodies. For Susanna, nobody, not even her own husband, is above suspicion. Kathy Lynn Emerson's third mystery in the Lady Appleton series once again will delight "readers who appreciate suspenseful historical mysteries with a feminist slant" (Booklist).

Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

Susanna, Lady Appleton, has been mourning the supposed death of her husband Robert. Yet a coded message instructs Susanna to meet him in a London alehouse. When he does not appear, and a disguised Robert turns up dead beneath the Eleanor Cross, Lady Appleton is accused of the crime--and will hang unless she finds the true killer.

Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Elizabethan herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, must root out a killer when two women are accused of witchcraft while the real killer, an expert in poisons, remains free to strike again.

Face Down Under the Wych Elm

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