The Siren Queen [Large Print] (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 477 pages
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (March 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0786271302
ISBN-13: 978-0786271306
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 567 g
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This is item 8 in The Ursula Blanchard Series.

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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. British author Buckley's excellent eighth Ursula Blanchard novel offers fine writing and deft plotting while vividly bringing the past to life. Where earlier volumes used historical mysteries that have sparked heated debate over the centuries, such as the sudden death of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 2003's The Fugitive Queen, this latest focuses on now obscure political intrigue involving an Italian banker, Roberto Ridolfi, in 1568. With threats to Elizabeth's throne looming, Blanchard, the queen's half-sister and occasional spy, uncovers suspicious correspondence pointing to a scheme to place Mary on the English throne. After the courier charged with delivering those messages turns up dead and a second murder soon follows, Blanchard, her husband and her loyal retinue seek evidence of motive and opportunity while alerting the beleaguered secretary of state, Lord Cecil, to the plot and working to forestall it. Experienced whodunit readers may identify the culprit more easily than they'd like, but the author's rare ability to effortlessly integrate fact and fiction and the cliffhanger ending will leave both old and new fans eagerly awaiting the next installment.
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Ursula Blanchard, half sister to Queen Elizabeth I and occasional spy for the realm, returns in a new Elizabethan mystery steeped in intrigue and suspense. While paying a reluctant visit to the seemingly foolish duke of Norfolk to discuss the possibility of an early betrothal for her young daughter, Ursula learns that her host has been conducting an ill-considered correspondence with the incarcerated Mary, queen of Scots. Determined to leave the duke's estate before the impressionable Meg becomes even more besotted with the icy Edmund Dean, she is prevented from returning home by the brutal murders of a courier and a servant. As Ursula attempts to untangle a treasonous web of deceit and double-cross, she places her own life in danger in order to protect the queen and the sister she has pledged to love and serve in secrecy. Another authentically detailed historical whodunit from a master of the genre. Margaret Flanagan
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