Tudor
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Haunted
(1) 1570. Queen Elizabeth is on her summer Royal Progress and the court is staying with Reynold Waldegrave, 5th Earl…
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
I’ve always been fascinated by the shadowy Jane Boleyn, a court intriguer who went so far as to provide the…
The Red Queen’s Daughter
Often a cover initially draws us to a book, but as we all know you “can’t judge a book by…
The Muscovy Chain
Can the modern genre of the detective story be transposed to cultural settings where there is no police force, no…
Mademoiselle Boleyn
Robin Maxwell returns to the subject of her debut (The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn) in this colorful and imaginative…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, this reissued novel by one of the grande dames of 20th-century historical fiction tells the familiar…
The Concubine
The popularity of historical fiction about historical women in general and Boleyn women in particular has resulted in the republication…
Young Bess
Princess Elizabeth’s early life is tainted by the death of her mother and the political intrigues that typified the Tudor…
Face down o’er the Border
n this 10th novel in the Face Down mystery series, Susanna Appleton, Elizabethan gentlewoman and sleuth, travels to Scotland to…
The Queen’s Handmaiden
Unwanted by her new stepfather, Eloise Rousell ends up in the care of her relation Kat Ashley, governess to Elizabeth…
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